GM and Ford will need to make similar cuts in order to survive. Of course
since the current UAW agreement prohibits plant closings, unless the union
agrees, and there is the infamous Jobs Bank, these cuts will not happen
until after a new contract is negotiated over the summer.
----- Original Message -----
From: <msnbcnnbcbs@hotmail.com>
To: <dakota-truck-moderator@bent.twistedbits.net>
Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 10:08 PM
Subject: RE: DML: Daimler confims talks to dump Chrysler
>
> Hate being the bearer of bad news, but...
>
> DaimlerChrysler AG announced plans Wednesday morning to cut 13,000 jobs at
> the
> Chrysler Group from 2007 to 2009 as part of a three-year plan to return
> the
> Auburn Hills unit to profitability by next year.
>
> http://freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070214/BUSINESS01/70214011
>
> The job reductions, which amount to about 16% of the Chrysler Group
> workforce,
> call for cutting 2,000 salaried employees and 11,000 hourly jobs, 9,000 in
> the
> Unites States and 2,000 in Canada.
>
> Chrysler said special retirement programs and other termination and
> attrition
> programs would be announced separately.
>
>
>
>
>
> Maybe they can turn this around?
>
>
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