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Chrysler faces more engine shortages
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CBC News
Parts shortages continue to slow production of minivans at Chrysler's Windsor Assembly Plant.
A lack of Pentastar engines, again, has slowed production. Management will institute "shift smoothing" to deal with the problem during the next month.
The plant will not shut down entirely but the company has cancelled the midnight shift next week.
Between now and Nov. 20, each of the three shifts will take a week off. The day and afternoon shifts will take turns staying home later.
Rick Laporte, president of CAW Local 444, thought the problem with engine supplies would have been dealt with by now:
"The engine is supplied right across the chain to all the vehicles in the Chrysler lineup. They're picking and choosing, wherever the demand is for the particular vehicles, as to how many they build," Laporte said. "We're forced to deal with what we've got."
The Chrysler workers will get supplementary unemployment benefits while off the job. But Laporte says employees at supplier plants aren't as lucky. They, too, will be forced to take some time off during the shift smoothing.
"Those workers will file for unemployment insurance and if they don't get it they will get nothing," Laporte said.
The Windsor Assembly Plant employs about 5,000 people, working three shifts.
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