Stellantis (Dodge) laying off 2,450 plant workers due to discontinuation of Ram ‘Classic’ pickup truck

[1srelluc]

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/09/stellantis-layoff-workers-ram-pickup-truck.html

Key points:

• Stellantis will indefinitely lay off up to 2,450 U.S. plant workers in Warren, Michigan, later this year as it discontinues production of an older version of its Ram 1500 pickup.
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• The company has not announced a vehicle to replace the truck.
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• The layoffs are expected to start as soon as October.

And then they got that godawful dodge Hornet with the 2nd lowest sales in the USA.

32 billion debt and not being able to get parts for weeks if not months....They're circling the toilet.

Meh, I expect GM and Ford to do the same soon. I know it sounds really "weird" but in a high inflation economy $50-90K trucks are not selling well.....Who would have thought?

 

[gipper]

He’s right…

“Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares is a disgrace and an embarrassment to a once-great American company,” Fain said in an emailed statement Friday night. “Meanwhile, Tavares jacks up his own pay by 56 percent while laying off thousands of autoworkers. If any autoworker did as piss poor of a job as Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares, they would be fired.”

 

[Polishprince]

Stellantis got crushed by UAW during their strike last year, Shawn Fain and the union bosses have to be gloating now over their victory.


But this is why UAW is so unable to organize proud Scab run plants like Mercedes in Alabama. People don't want to lose their jobs.

 

[odanny]

It almost seems as though the foreign co-ownership of Chrysler has been the only thing that has kept them afloat for the past 3 decades. The Dodge Ram has long been one of the more affordable entry level pickups, in comparison to Ford and Chevy, it wasn't that long ago that a coworker of mine bought one brand new for under $30k.

Where is another Lee Iococa when you need one? Can we talk about bringing back an original?

 

[Crepitus]

And then they got that godawful dodge Hornet with the 2nd lowest sales in the USA.

You ain't kidding either. look at that markdown!

$22K for a brand new American car?

 

[Crepitus]

“Meanwhile, Tavares jacks up his own pay by 56 percent while laying off thousands of autoworkers.

That's typical CEO bullshit and why I keep telling you guys billionaires should not exist.

 

[1srelluc]

It almost seems as though the foreign co-ownership of Chrysler has been the only thing that has kept them afloat for the past 3 decades. The Dodge Ram has long been one of the more affordable entry level pickups, in comparison to Ford and Chevy, it wasn't that long ago that a coworker of mine bought one brand new for under $30k.

Where is another Lee Iococa when you need one? Can we talk about bringing back an original?

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Damn they were a POS.

They tried raffling off a new one at the town's VFD one year and they did not sell enough tickets to cover it's dealer's cost.

BTW.....The K-Cars was the reason you started seeing those dash sunshades....The dash would blacken and fall apart when exposed to direct sunlight.

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

They are no longer making the Challenger or Charger either. That's why I bought my Challenger earlier this year. The last year they are making them so I wanted to take the opportunity to own one brand new.

 

[odanny]

My enduring memory of the K car is when I was in training at Ft. Eustis, VA. in 1986, and one of the guys in our training company raped a girl, he was a hillbilly from W. Va. and a goofy, lighthearted guy, but he kept failing the training and getting "recycled" into another class, just like Full Metal Jacket, he lost it, and ended up raping a girl one night in a fit of rage. One day his demeanor changed from lighthearted to really pissed off.

One morning they marched this guy out of the barracks, with an MP on either side, to a waiting K car, complete with cop lights on top of it. The entire company was standing in formation to watch it.

 

[odanny]

You ain't kidding either. look at that markdown!

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$22K for a brand new American car?

Gotta have one hell of a bad reputation. Never even heard of this model until this morning.

 

[Crepitus]

Gotta have one hell of a bad reputation. Never even heard of this model until this morning.

Same here, although I am well past the "entry level car" stage of my life.

 

[gipper]

That's typical CEO bullshit and why I keep telling you guys billionaires should not exist.

I agree completely.