クライスラー、１３０００人のリストラ

New York Timesより抜粋。
DaimlerChrysler said today that it was leaving all options open for the future of its struggling Chrysler Group, which announced a plan to close all or part of four plants and eliminate 13,000 jobs in North America.

The announcements came as DaimlerChrysler said it earned nearly $7.3 billion last year, despite a loss of nearly $1.5 billion for Chrysler. The Chrysler loss compared with a profit of just more than $2 billion in 2005.

“It was a strong year at three of our divisions, but it’s been a difficult and disappointing one here at the Chrysler Group,” Dieter Zetsche, the chief executive of the German parent, said this morning.

The restructuring plan marked a dramatic swing for a company that had seemed to avoid the same declines as its Detroit rivals.

Chrysler said it would close its Newark, Del., assembly plant in 2009, as well as a parts distribution center in Cleveland.

It also will eliminate one shift of workers at truck plants in Warren, Mich., and St. Louis.

In all, Chrysler said 13,000 employees, or 16 percent of its work force, would lose their jobs by the end of 2009, including 11,000 hourly workers.

Of those hourly workers, 9,000 will lose their jobs in the United States and 2,000 in Canada. Another 2,000 white-collar workers will see their jobs eliminated over the next two years.

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人間を数字でしかみないという米国の悪い手法を、日本が見習い、赤字＝リストラで再建、と馬鹿な方程式ができた。