Chrysler to slash 1000 employees at Brampton Facility

[Hypotenus Love Triangle]

from Autoblog.com

"Last year Chrysler announced that it intended to significantly reduce its workforce by 2009 as part of its Recovery and Transformation plan. The exact focus of the planned reductions was not revealed at the time. Now, however, Chrysler has publicly released information detailing the locations of nearly 5,000 job cuts set to occur between now and the end of March. The layoffs will span five North American plants and the numbers consist of all hourly workers (i.e. union workers) and stem from the eliminations of extra production shifts. 900 workers will be gone from the Jefferson North Assembly Plant and 1,140 from the Sterling Heights Assembly Plant, both in the Detroit area. The Toledo North Assembly Plant loses 780 jobs and the Brampton Assembly Plant in Ontario will cut 1,000 employees. The Belvedere Assembly Plant in Illinois will be excusing 1,096 workers, with around 600 of those coming from temporary positions. Our condolences if you're one of the 5,000. We hear that Audi is hiring, though."

hope this dont affect the challenger production.

[Ragamuffin]

Well, my little intuition buddy tells me that Cerberus,Nardelli & Company slyly planned this: waiting to annouce all this until after the Union agreement had been Ok'd /ratified { or did they announce some of this prior }!! As for a job at Audi ,hmmmm ! Let's see ,if one had enough $$$$ ...Hmmmm a 2008 Challenger SRT, another Mopar which I cannot mention any further due to its near classified status , and this one : !!! At 354HP for $50,000 or 265HP for about the same price as the SRT !

[challengerjdtx]

My dealership just called me and told me that they were getting their allocation cut back and may not be able to deliver my ordered Challenger. I think the dealership is trying to screw me.
Can anyone help me and give me any advice?

Please help!

[Ragamuffin]

Originally Posted by challengerjdtx

My dealership just called me and told me that they were getting their allocation cut back and may not be able to deliver my ordered Challenger. I think the dealership is trying to screw me.
Can anyone help me and give me any advice?

Please help!

Well, you do have a copy of the order and/or something else in writing ? I'm not a lawyer or legal authority but you may be able to sue the dealership for " Non- performance of a legal and binding contract" !!! I'm not sure if Chrysler could be sued, since they are the " bosses" and anything can happen [ unfortunately] .You may want to consult an attorney: if possible. Good luck

[Rallye72]

Originally Posted by challengerjdtx

My dealership just called me and told me that they were getting their allocation cut back and may not be able to deliver my ordered Challenger. I think the dealership is trying to screw me.
Can anyone help me and give me any advice?

Please help!

Seems to me before you start dragging out the legal guns you need to verify what they're telling you. If they are in fact allocated "x" cars and your order falls below the line (others are ahead of you by date of order) I don't see where you have a complaint. Sure, it's disappointing but come on, a lawa suit ? Did they give you some sort of super deal that you can't duplicate elsewhere? What's the real issue here?

[RRHemi]

I thought Brampton was three shifts, balls out? Chances are real good that the Challenger will outsell the displaced Magnum. Are they saying there were 1,000 people standing around watching others do the work?

[Ragamuffin]

Originally Posted by RRHemi

I thought Brampton was three shifts, balls out? Chances are real good that the Challenger will outsell the displaced Magnum. Are they saying there were 1,000 people standing around watching others do the work?

Yeah, some of this is starting to get con-fusing !!! Somehow, months ago, the 5000 # came out .Then after 6-7500 orders have been "written" [ in probably record time ], Dodge or Chrysler comes out with a possible cut-off limit and/or date !!! Do they want to sell a bunch of Challengers or not ? I realize though that the New C only has foresight at Brampton for the Challenger production: possibly if Brampton puts out better quality work than our American workforce { either as a whole or maybe just certain sites[ I'm somewhat dismayed to say ] } Setting up a second Challenger production line is costly or is it ? If production #s /forecast though doubles or even triples original DCX estimates then a second LC platform production location is warranted and more than welcome { at least in my mind or eyes }! ! P.S. As for those 1000 workers " standing around" perhaps they were learning /seeing 'how it's done' ?!?!? Or a communal java break

[RRHemi]

Isn't the Magnum just a variant of the 300/Charger? Why not let it live? Won't there be people looking for the utility of an SUV without the gas guzzling? Magnum certainly fits the bill.

I wonder how many people work at Brampton? I wonder if the plan is to cut the numbers until Challenger production ramps up. This is part of the reason that the unions manage to get such high wages, instability.

[Ragamuffin]

Yes the Magnum, Charger and the 300C use the same platform and are made at/on the same assembly line and/or plant at Brampton. Brampton employs approximately 4200 people or I mean to say 1000 less now [ so that's about 1 in 4 workers lose their jobs and hopefully will somehow get them back] with the recently announced slashes !!! As for why the Magnum is being slashed early this year, 2008 : you'll have to PM Mister Robert L. Nardelli ,current Chairman and Ceo of Chrysler LLC /Board of Dirctors,LLC !!! P.S. CAW President Buzz Hargrove is not very happy about this either !!!