DETROIT—Fiat is planning to acquire 100 percent of the Chrysler Group by purchasing the 41.5 percent of shares in the company held by the UAW. Fiat currently owns 58.5 percent of Chrysler.
DETROIT—Chrysler has reinstated a number of employees from its Jefferson North assembly plant here who were discharged in September 2010 after they were caught consuming alcohol on a break.
BELVIDERE, IL—A federal appeals court awarded a Jewish pipe-fitter at Chrysler’s assembly plant here $4 million after it concluded the automaker did nothing to stop discrimination and harassment against the worker.
DETROIT—Chrysler plans to invest $240 million and create 1,250 jobs in Southeast Michigan over the next several months, adding a third crew at its truck assembly plant in Warren and bringing an engine plant in Detroit back on line.
DETROIT—Some 1,100 new employees will begin working next week on a third crew at Chrysler’s Jefferson North Assembly Plant here to meet continuing strong demand for the Jeep Grand Cherokee.
TORONTO—The Canadian Auto Workers’ Chrysler members have approved a new contract with the automaker that delivers $9,000 in bonuses to the workers over the next four years.
DETROIT—A 43-year-old auto worker was stabbed to death by a co-worker Thursday at Chrysler’s Jefferson North Assembly Plant here. The co-worker committed suicide later that day.
WINDSOR, ON—CAW members at Chrysler’s assembly plant here have voted almost unanimously in support of a strike as a way to back workers’ contact demands. The union’s expires in mid-September.
DETROIT—Due to soaring sales, Chrysler has canceled the traditional two-week shutdown at four of its assembly plants, including the facilities in Belvidere, IL, and Toledo, OH.