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Chrysler Tries New Line of Thinking for Plants

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Sometime has passed since the bleaker days of Chrysler. It’s been 3 years since then and Chrysler has managed to dig their way out of the hole and back on top of things. A lot of that success seems to be by providing the public with some great new models that they want.

GMA news has a different thought behind what is the driving force behind the bounce back. Chrysler has been putting a lot of minor changes into their factories. These hundreds of changes in production have given the plants more flexibility and output. The employees even see this as breaking down barriers between the management and the floor workers.

Robert Figlioli, a tradesman at Chrysler’s Jefferson North plant in Detroit, is quoted as saying about the plant, “You wouldn’t believe this plant -four years ago it looked like a dungeon. Now it’s beautiful, clean.”

Much of the look has changed since the time before the bailout, when employees were seeing crisis mode all around them with wages being cut, workers laid off, and hours shortened. That’s not the case anymore as the plants are being cleaned up and given a much more high-tech look in order to boost employee moral and increase productivity. It’s a belief that Chrysler official Scott Tolmie holds to, that making a better working environment will help give motivation to the workers.

“The environment is important -to have a house that is clean with nice colors makes a difference,” he says. “We want that Apple store look -it makes people want to work here.”

Chrysler’s approach to improving the conditions to make the workers enjoy their work certainly seems to be working. It seems to be paying off in the quality of the products that they are giving to the world and I think it’s certainly paying off with the demand increasing across the board for their multiple brands and vehicles.

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Chrysler Starts New Website for Job-Hunters

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As the economic story of the bailed out auto industry continues, Chrysler is one of the ones that has consistently reported a strong comeback. Due to that, they have been able to increase workers at their plants and add new shifts to keep up with the new influx of demand. Chrysler is still looking for more people to join their team and to do that, they have created the only website in the big three of car makers to be accepting applications for jobs.

According to the Detroit Free Press, the new website, www.chryslercarerrs.com, is taking applications for both hourly and salaried workers. They are looking to fill 2,350 manufacturing jobs within the next year in both Detroit and Toledo. This differs from the other companies in that Chrysler isn’t using referrals from employees. The auto maker is hiring only from applications made online.

The new site offers a change from the previous method Chrysler used. The old way of doing things was meant to avoid having too many applications at once, so the openings would only appear for a short time, forcing applicants to keep a constant eye open to spring at a moments notice when a job would appear. Now the applicants simply register with their interest for certain jobs, even if they are not posted on the site. Chrysler will then send them an email when a position that matches their skills and interest has an opening.

For anyone looking to be employed by the auto industry now that they are coming back from the brink, this is certainly something to be excited about. It’s a much easier way of being able to find the job you want without keeping a hawk’s eye on the computer screen and pressing refresh every two minutes.

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Homeless Mother’s Gets A Donated Van to Replace Her Stolen One

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Hard times are the focus of many news stories these days. They aren’t exactly the hardest to find, not with so many people struggling with mortgages and the like with the current economic woes. Take this news story for example, a mother in Kansas City who has hit hard times. For the time being, Nicole Scott and her seven children have been staying at the reStart homeless shelter while she attempts to get out of her troubles. If that wasn’t enough, her car was stolen just a few months ago while it was parked at the shelter. For someone searching for a job, it’s a total loss.

What’s really shocking about this story is the twist that turns it from a tragedy to a success. True that Nicole Scott is having a struggle of putting her life back together with her children, but she was given quite the shocking surprise when she was invited to go with others from reStart to accept a reconditioned van that was being donated. At the presentation, Scott was asked to come up and what happened next was something she had no idea was coming. There was a second van being given away. A 2000 Chrysler Town and Country was going to be her’s.

“And then when y’all called me over there and said it was mine, it was like, ‘oh, for real?’ I just want to thank everybody. I’ll really enjoy it and my kids are going to love it,” she said about the gift. “I can do what I need to do now. Go find me a job and stay on top of my business.”

The group that donated the vans were students from the Northwest Iowa Community College. They were in Kansas City for the annual SkillsUSA National Leadership and Skills convention. The students call their group the Charitable Chariots and it takes a good two months to get the vans in proper working order.

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