Articles I have come accross.
http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071030/AUTO01/710300398
Okay, nothing in there about the Compass, Patriot or the Caliber, but it does show cutting about 1000 contract positions. Hmmm??
http://www.wifr.com/home/headlines/10856221.html
Hey, I totally understand the position you are in, but I have one question. We knew it was temp, but we all prayed with everything we had that it would become perm. So here is my question: Why on God's green earth would you purchase a house while being temporarly employed? Yes, we all though we would become permanant, but really, you couldnt have waited 2 years to find out for sure?
Sorry just had to get that out.
Chrysler LLC plans to end the third shift at its Belvidere assembly plant, which could put as many as 1,000 employees out of work, a high-level United Auto Workers official told stunned members Friday.
Chrysler would not confirm the report, but rumors have been circulating for weeks that the third shift, added in July 2006, would end by Christmas. Union officials typically are advised of such plans before company announcements to workers.
A worker who attended the meeting said Garry Mason, an executive assistant to UAW President Ron Gettelfinger, shocked them by saying that sluggish sales of the three vehicles built at Belvidere -- Dodge Caliber and Jeep Compass and Patriot -- meant "the third shift was gone," as if that news was common knowledge.
There was a gasp in the room," said the worker, who asked not to be named. "Everyone was like, 'Huh?' This was the first time there had been anything official about it. It was a real eye-opener."
Another Local 1268 member who was at the meeting said Mason displayed "a deer in the headlights look" when he realized they hadn't been told. Both workers said Mason didn't say when the shift would end or how many workers would be affected. "
After that, he backpedaled and just changed the subject and talked about why the contract is so good," one said. "He just kept avoiding the subject."
Mason's statement about the third shift appeared first on a Web site forum maintained by Local 1268 members.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-sat_chrysler_1027oct27,1,6172106.story?ctrack=1&cset=true
That pasted horribly. I dont have access to the Trib, but I copied the link as well if you want to sign up, but I found it interesting. We shall see.
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