Chrysler auto workers jobs being shipped to Mexico under Bankruptcy plan!

[Better Believe It]

Mexico May Get Kenosha Chrysler Jobs
by Gary Reistad and Tom Murray
WTMJ-TV Milwaukee
May 5, 2009

KENOSHA - Union officials and politicians believe Chrysler is shifting work to Mexico that had been slated for Kenosha.

UAW Local 72 president Glenn Stark called Chrysler’s plan “a betrayal of Wisconsin taxpayers.”

Workers filled the union hall Monday afternoon for a rally to signal they will not allow their plant to close quietly.

“We want Chrysler to emerge from this bankruptcy as a strong and competitive company,” UAW regional representative John Drew told the crowd. “We want them to emerge with Kenosha as a part of it.”

Governor Jim Doyle claims he was blindsided by Chrysler executives. He said up until the day before the automaker revealed plans to close the Kenosha plant, the company gave state and local leaders the impression that Kenosha would be upgraded to build new energy efficient engines.

"I am really outraged how Chrysler is handling this,” Doyle told reporters. "They are actually going to be opening and adding people to a plant in Mexico to build an engine that we believe could be built in Kenosha."

Please read the complete article at this link:

http://www.todaystmj4.com/news/local/44325207.html

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- Chrysler will shut eight U.S. plants but keep three Mexican manufacturing plants in operation!!! -

Signs and cheers
Workers carried signs saying "U.S. $$$ for U.S. Jobs" and "Keep Kenosha Open."

They cheered when Kreuser said the company's math doesn't add up: Chrysler plans to close eight factories in the United States but not shut any of its three plants in Mexico. The auto maker also plans to open one more in Mexico to make engines - work that had been promised to Kenosha when union members approved contract concessions in 2006.

"There is no better stimulus package than jobs, and we want them here in Kenosha County," Kreuser said.

http://www.jsonline.com/business/44328942.html

AFL-CIO Appeal to write letters to President Obama protesting the shutting down of plant and export of those jobs to Mexico.
http://blog.aflcio.org/2009/05/05/act-now-to-stop-chrysler-jobs-from-going-to-mexico/

[OhioChick]

1. K&R

:kick:

[AndyA]

2. This is disgraceful. Taxpayer money being used to put taxpayers out of work!

ENOUGH
IS ENOUGH!

[avaistheone1]

7. You know must people have no idea that this is being done with their money.

[high density]

3. So when does the UAW take 55% ownership in the company? NM

[pleah]

4. WTF?

I guess we don't need those jobs after all.:sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm:

[Jack Bone]

5. As a Chrysler worker, I'm appalled! K&R..nt.

[avaistheone1]

6. The banks used their taxpayer bailout money to setup operations in other countries too

like India and China.

Our elected leaders have no shame.

[flyarm]

13. yep..they sure did ..and when some people here were posting about it..

we were being told to stfu!!
eom

[Romulox]

14. The majority of the $180 billion given to AIG was used to pay off foreign banks. nt

[avaistheone1]

15. ...was that for credit default swaps or CDOs?

[Romulox]

17. CDS. nt

[lib2DaBone]

8. Once they get rid of the UAW.. their task will be complete.

Mission Accomplished!

Just like Patco they have reduced the American worker to third world status.

Draconian Bankruptcy Laws.. (you can no longer file bankruptcy) you have to be "evaluated" and given permission by a judge.

Usury Credit card rates... corporate ownership off ALL media including newspaper, radio and TV. (Clear Channel, Fox News)

Now they can take your job, your home and your savings. They can take your tax money and make YOU pay for their failed banks, all the while convincing you that Jesus really wants it this way.

[flyarm]

12. you've got that 100% right!! eom

[Hutzpa]

9. What is wrong with these FUCKERS???

They are still looking for cheap labor after receiving money from tax payers to keep them from bankruptcy(?) WTF!!!

This is an outrage, shows that it's not only the CEO who should have been fired but the whole management team needs replacing, there are still vermin's within the management team.

[Bluzmann57]

10. If true, I will never own a Chrysler product again

I've had a few but if they ship U.S. jobs to anywhere but the U.S., it will never happen again.

[flyarm]

11. ahhh Mexico got Ford jobs also!!

I posted this March 31st.2009


Geithner..who worked for Kissinger and the CFR

Geithner..who's papa Peter F.Geithner was with the Ford Foundation and Obama's mom just happened to work with him!!

Any wonder why the GM CEO was made to step down..the very day that Ford announced it was opening a plant in Mexico..the znnouncement took place at the Pres of Mexico's palace..and do not miss the very fact that the CEO of Ford said : Mr Mullaly said: "We are convinced the geographic location as well as Mexico's highly qualified labour force and economic stability make this decision the right one for our business."

That would be 4,500 jobs Americans will not get!!


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/742895 ...


Peter F. Geithner, is the director of the Asia program at the Ford Foundation in New York. During the early 1980s, Peter Geithner oversaw the Ford Foundation's microfinance programs in Indonesia being developed by S. Ann Dunham-Soetoro, President Barack Obama's mother, and they met in person at least once

Geithner's maternal grandfather, Charles F. Moore, was an adviser to President Dwight D. Eisenhower and served as a vice president of Ford Motor Company.


Posted by flyarm in General Discussion
Tue Mar 31st 2009, 03:37 PM
ahhh this ought to warm a few of the hearts of US Union workers!!


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/742895 ...

Ford to open new plant in Mexico


US giant Ford is to invest $3bn (£1.5bn) in a new car plant in Mexico, the biggest investment in the country's manufacturing sector.

The move is a blow to American car workers who had hoped the factory would be built in the United States.

Ford has lost more than $15bn (£7.5bn) over the past two years and says the new facility is crucial to its future.

Mexican President Felipe Calderon hailed the announcement as a "turning point" for his country.

The new factory, and other changes to Ford's Mexican operations, are likely to create an estimated 4,500 jobs in Mexico, where car workers earn substantially less than their American counterparts.

Mr Calderon made the announcement with Ford president Alan Mullaly at the presidential compound in Mexico City on Friday. "We want Mexico to be an automotive country, one that is competitive and with the most advantages so that the worldwide automotive industry will establish itself here," Mr Calderon said.

Mr Mullaly said: "We are convinced the geographic location as well as Mexico's highly qualified labour force and economic stability make this decision the right one for our business."

[LisaM]

16. Thanks for that very interesting information

NAFTA needs to go, now.

[Politicub]

18. Repeal NAFTA

Along with DOMA and welfare reform, its one of the worst pieces of the Clinton legacy. It needs to go.

[firedupdem]

19. This has been going on for years. Nothing new at all n/t

[MasonJar]

20. If they do that I will continue to not buy their cars.