{"id":383199,"date":"2018-11-01T14:01:35","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T13:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/fiat-chrysler-workers-hit-with-temporary-layoffs-across-north-america\/"},"modified":"2018-11-01T14:01:35","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T13:01:35","slug":"fiat-chrysler-workers-hit-with-temporary-layoffs-across-north-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/fiat-chrysler-workers-hit-with-temporary-layoffs-across-north-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiat Chrysler workers hit with temporary layoffs across North America"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>Fiat Chrysler workers hit with temporary layoffs across North America<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Jacob Crosse<br \/>\n    <br \/>1 November 2018<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>Six thousand workers at Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) plants in Windsor, Canada and 5,000 workers at the company\u2019s assembly plant in Belvidere, Illinois have been temporarily laid off since October 22. Autoworkers were given no advance notice by the United Auto Workers (UAW) union or its counterpart in Canada, Unifor, about the pending layoffs and production stoppages. <\/p>\n<p>Over 3,000 workers at FCA transmission plants in Kokomo and Tipton, Indiana who have also been on temporary layoff since October 15 will now be out of work at least an additional two weeks. After keeping workers in the dark, UAW Local 685 officials are holding informational meetings today to \u201cdispel layoff rumors, discuss the actual layoff process and answer questions,\u201d according to a leaflet that workers sent to the <em>WSWS Autoworker Newsletter<\/em>. The local has spent the last three months ignoring a unanimous strike mandate by transmission workers over more than 200 unresolved grievances, the majority over health and safety. <\/p>\n<p>Statements from FCA US, FCA Canada, and Unifor Local 444 President David Cassidy, all say that the layoffs are needed to \u201cadjust inventories.\u201d In comments that could have been delivered by any corporate manager, Cassidy told the <em>Windsor Star<\/em>, \u201cInventory adjustment is nothing new in our industry\u2026we often see this in the fall and at Christmas or just after. Sales can be up and down at those times of year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It is also, \u201cnothing new\u201d for autoworkers to be strung along, lied to and sold out by well-paid union bureaucrats who oppose any collective action to defend the jobs and livelihoods of the workers they falsely claim to represent. Autoworkers at BVA were originally&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2018\/11\/01\/fiat-n01.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Fiat Chrysler workers hit with temporary layoffs across North America By Jacob Crosse 1 November 2018 Six thousand workers at Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) plants in Windsor, Canada and 5,000 workers at the company\u2019s assembly plant in Belvidere, Illinois have been temporarily laid off since October 22. Autoworkers were given no advance notice by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-383199","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}