Chrysler Begins Layoffs Of Thousands of Workers
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DETROIT — Chrysler LLC began laying off thousands of salaried workers yesterday as part of an effort to slash costs in the company’s new era of private ownership, a spokesman said.
The cuts won’t end there. Chrysler plans to announce today that the third shift at the Toledo North plant in Ohio will be eliminated in the first quarter of 2008, a reduction of 750 jobs, according to a congressional aide with knowledge of the announcement. The Toledo plant makes the Jeep Liberty and wasn’t part of recent contract talks between the United Auto Workers union and Chrysler because it has a separate contract.
A spokesman for Chrysler, Mike Aberlich, said about one-third of the company’s temporary workers will be laid off in the next few months, along with other salaried workers. A person briefed on the plan said 1,000 salaried workers and 1,100 temporary workers — who work in engineering, finance, procurement and other areas — will be laid off.
