AUBURN HILLS, Mich. (AP) - About 13,000 Chrysler workers will lose their jobs under a plan designed to cut the struggling automaker's costs and return it to profitability by next year. The plan, announced Wednesday, also calls for closing the company's Newark, Del., assembly plant, and reducing shifts at plants in Warren, Mich., and St. Louis. A parts distribution center near Cleveland also will be closed.
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 The job cuts 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.
The restructuring announcement was made in Auburn Hills, the home to DaimlerChrysler AG's U.S.-based operations.
