Chrysler cutting 1,825 jobs with moves at 2 plants

[BeatleBoot]

Source: The Detroit News

DETROIT -- Chrysler LLC will cut 1,825 jobs by eliminating one shift at a Toledo, Ohio, Jeep plant and accelerating the closure of its sport utility vehicle factory in Newark, Del., because of the slowing global economy and a shift toward smaller vehicles.

About 825 workers at the Toledo North Assembly Plant will be laid off indefinitely as of Dec. 31. The Newark closure also will be effective at the end of the year and affect about 1,000 jobs, the company said Thursday in a news release.

The cuts are about 6 percent of Chrysler's U.S. hourly work force of 33,000.

The Toledo factory makes the Dodge Nitro and Jeep Liberty. Both have been selling slowly this year due to high gas prices and a slowing U.S. economy.






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[Parche]

1. If they would have stopped making fukin SUV's

stupid utility vehicles, then they wouldnt be in this mess...........:grr: :hi:

[OhioChick]

2. True....

However, Ohio is bleeding bad from all of the job loss.

[dysfunctional press]

3. until gas prices went up, people kept buying them...

and they were very profitable. why would they have stopped making them? :shrug:

and now that they are stopping- people complain.