Although Chrysler is targeting 10,000 hourly workers for its latest round of buyouts, the Michigan-based automaker could fall short of its goal, a new report finds. The combination of an uncertain economy and the still rather well-paying jobs at Chrysler have many UAW workers thinking twice about accepting the buyout package.
“I don’t think we will get quite 10,000,” UAW Vice President General Holiefield, who heads the union’s Chrysler Department, told the Detroit Free Press. “With the economy the way it is, people are trying to hang on to what they have.”
Chrysler has a minimum goal of 8,500 buyouts, but it remains unclear if the automaker will even meet that targ
Chrysler’s cross-town rivals — Ford and General Motors — are planning similar buyouts. Ford hopes to reduce its workforce by 8,000 employees but GM has yet to announced a target for its buyout program.
In all, Chrysler could eliminate 21,000 jobs by 2010.
03/14, 9:18 AM
posted by:
Bobzooki
I would take the money before Chrysler dies and you get nothing
03/14, 9:32 AM
posted by:
rockstars
There are so many people that they aren’t even allowing to take the buyout package to sever all ties to Chrysler. They aren’t letting them all take it because they don’t want to screw themselves and be short of people at the plant. At least that was what was happening.
03/14, 11:50 AM
posted by:
johnnycanuck
Just let them live long enough for me to get my white hemi 6spd Challenger with the KWLSKI vanity plate.