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Fiat-Chrysler Says Maserati Plant Strike in Italy is "Absolutely Incomprehensible"
"We wait until they get sleepy, waiting until they get so big they can barely move…and then we walk out of the shadows, quietly walk out of the dark…and strike!" This passage is from Maserati's 2014 Super Bowl spot named 'Strike' (see below) and ironically, it seems fitting for what's going on at the Italian firm's plant in Grugliasco - at least if you see things from Fiat-Chrysler Automobile's (FCA) perspective. Read more »
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10,000th Maserati Built This Year At The Grugliasco Plant In Turin [w/video]
Things are looking good for Maserati, which just announced that it has built its 10,000th vehicle at the Avv. Giovanni Agnelli plant in Grugliasco (Turin). Fiat retooled the plant for Maserati and reopened it on January 30 this year, making it the second...
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Dacia Workers Launch Sudden Strike, Stop Production At Romanian Plant
Several hundred workers at the main Dacia plant, located in Mioveni, Romania, went on strike yesterday, fearing mass layoffs due to contracts not being signed in time, and criticizing the management for overworking them and treating them "like slaves"....
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Caw Threatens To Strike Detroit's Big 3 Simultaneously If They Don’t Agree On New Contract
The Canadian Auto Workers’ union (CAW) is the largest private sector union in the country with over 200,000 members. On September 5, it announced that it would strike General Motors, Ford and Chrysler, if contract talks do not progress. This is...
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Italian Auto Union To Go On Strike At Fiat’s Mirafiori Plant, Affects Chrysler Plans
In order to be able to invest €1 billion (US $1.31 billion) in a joint venture with Chrysler, Fiat needed to secure agreements with all unions representing its factory workers. However, a more hard-line Italian union, FIOM, is refusing to sign...
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Strike 2: Uaw Goes On Strike Against Chrysler
Following the strike against GM a fortnight ago, UAW (United Auto Workers) went on strike against Chrysler LLC today after marathon negotiations between the union and the money-loosing American carmaker failed to produce a tentative agreement on a new...
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