Today's news was definitely not a message of love to the 13,000 workers who found out that their jobs are going to be cut.
Under the plan, 11,000 production workers - 9,000 in the U.S. and 2,000 in Canada - will lose their jobs over the next three years, and 2,000 salaried jobs also will be cut - 1,000 this year and 1,000 in 2008.
"Today's action by DaimlerChrysler is devastating news for thousands of workers, their families and their communities," United Auto Workers President Ron Gettelfinger and Vice President General Holiefield said in a joint statement. "While Chrysler Group's recent losses are not the fault of UAW members, they will suffer because of the reductions announced today."
The job losses are the latest in a yearlong series of devastating cuts in the ailing domestic auto industry, which likely will lose more than 100,000 jobs in all.
That is really bad news for my local area where automotive manufacturing is still a very large part of our economic base. A Ford stamping plant is also going to be closed with the majority of those workers ending up without employment since the opportunity to transfer to another plant is not going to be an option for all of those not qualified for an early retirement.
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