Chrysler quietly launches hiring Web site
Monday, March 29, 2010
Chrysler Group has quietly taken applications from workers interested in a blue-collar job with the company.
On Monday, the Chrysler Web site,
https://www.asitracker.com/tracker/ClientGeoSelect.aspx, was accepting applications for temporary employees at the company’s plants in Belvidere, Ill., and Kenosha, Wis. The application portal for the Detroit area, however, was shut off and was not accepting any applications.
Nevertheless, the company appeared to be stockpiling applications if it decided to expand production in the near future.
Chrysler representatives had no official comment though they were aware of the site’s existence.
Any workers hired by Chrysler now will earn smaller wages to workers covered by the UAW’s current contract with the automaker. Chrysler workers current earn $28 per hour, but wages for new hires and temporary workers start at around $14 per hour.
Meanwhile, the site caused a stir among Chrysler employees, who have endured a steady stream of cutbacks and layoffs over the past four years.
“They didn’t tell us about it,” said one local union official from the Detroit area. “I don’t think they notified the union either,” he said.
Nor did Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne talk about opening the application process when he met with the United Auto Workers Chrysler Council recently. Nevertheless, union activists began circulating the address of the Internet site last week.
Hourly production job opportunities may exist in the areas of assembly, stamping, powertrain, and parts distribution centers, the site said, adding Chrysler Group LLC, formed in 2009 from a global, strategic alliance with Fiat Group, produces Chrysler, Jeep, Dodge and Mopar brand vehicles and products.
“With the resources, technology and worldwide distribution, network required to compete effectively on a global scale, the alliance builds on Chrysler’s culture of innovation first established by Walter P. Chrysler in 1925,” it said.
Fiat will contribute worldclass technology, platforms and powertrains for small and medium-sized cars, allowing Chrysler Group LLC to offer an expanded product line including environmentally friendly vehicles.
The site also noted the company’s assembly operations could need employees to work in trim departments at the company’s assembly plants where detail is added to sub-assembled part; in chassis departments that installs parts to vehicles’ drive trains and in final assembly where vehicles are completed.
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