Fiat Chrysler Automobiles To Outsource 300 Windsor Jobs
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) has announced it is cutting nearly 300 jobs at its Windsor factory.
The jobs being eliminated are in the FCA Transport division, which moves parts that go into the 2017 Chrysler Pacifica and 2017 Dodge Grand Caravan minivans from warehouse to factory floor.
A total of 295 jobs will be contracted to an outside transport company; FCA says it will offer a retirement package to those eligible among the 288 hourly workers and seven salaried workers affected. Those not eligibile to retire, or who opt not to take the package, will be offered other positions at the factory.
Meanwhile, Unifor, the union that represents workers at Ontario's Chrysler, Ford and GM plants, says it will not accept non-unionized transport companies at the FCA factory.
