Thursday, March 22, 2007

An additional 600 jobs cut by DaimlerChrysler's in Missouri

FENTON, Mo. - - The job losses at DaimlerChrysler's suburban St. Louis operation will be a little worse than previously reported.

The company now says it plans to eliminate more than 19-hundred jobs in Fenton.DaimlerChrysler said last month that 13-hundred jobs would be lost at the south plant where minivans are made. It didn't announce at the that some cuts were also planned at the north plant, which makes Dodge Ram pickups.The company hopes to eliminate all the jobs through retirement and voluntary severance packages.

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