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10.20.2007 7:06 am

Second local union rejects Chrysler labor deal

United Auto Workers Local 110, the local union representing workers at Chrysler’s minivan plant in Fenton, rejected today a proposed labor contract between the UAW and the automaker, making it the second local union to vote against the deal.

The two…

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10.19.2007 12:57 pm

Local Chrysler workers not surprised by UAW contract defeat

As Chrysler  workers from the local minivan plant arrived today at their union hall to vote on a  proposed national labor contract, they showed little surprise that workers at an adjacent pickup plant had already  rejected the same contract.

On Thursday,…

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10.18.2007 1:24 pm

Chrysler workers begin voting on new contract

Local Chrysler  workers will be  voting throughout  today on a new labor contract. The vote began at 8 a.m. and ends at 8 p.m. for  active members  of the United Auto Workers Local 136. That union represents more than 2,000…

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09.13.2007 11:28 am

Chrysler to launch new minivan in Fenton

Chrysler LLC on Sunday will celebrate the start of its new assembly line at its South Assembly plant in Fenton. The new line will produce the company’s redesigned 2008 minivans - the Dodge Grand Caravan and Chrysler Town & Country…

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09.07.2007 4:47 pm

No ‘yes men’ for Nardelli this time

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Chrysler CEO Bob Nardelli’s decision to hire veteran automaker executives Jim Press and Phil Murtaugh is winning praise.

Hiring Press, the former head of Toyota North America, and Murtaugh, a former GM executive, are signs that Nardelli is becoming less autocratic…

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09.04.2007 10:26 am

Chrysler’s north assembly plant reopens

Chrysler’s North assembly plant in Fenton reopened Tuesday after being shut for two days due to a part defect.

On Thursday morning, the manufacturer shut the plant, which assembles Dodge Ram pickups, when quality verification checks revealed a malfunction in a…

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07.19.2007 5:14 pm

Ameren, Chrysler win pollution prevention award

AmerenUE’s Meramec plant and Chysler’s assembly plants in Fenton  receieved a polution prevention  award from the National Association of Environmental Managers, a Washington, D.C.-based non-profit education assocation for businesses looking to be environmentally freindly.

The companies  began  their “Paint to Power”…

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07.12.2007 2:52 pm

Chrysler drops prices for redesigned 2008 minivans

Chysler announced Thursday it would lower prices from the previous model year for its redesigned 2008 minivans, which are due to triclkle into show rooms later this fall.

The base model of the Dodge Grand Caravan will have a manufacturer suggested…

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06.20.2007 10:21 am

New plant for parts supplier in Eureka

Developers of a new 217,000 square feet location for a Chrysler supplier are having a “tilt-up” ceremony - the equivalent of a ground breaking - in Eureka this morning. Concrete walls - which are formed by pouring concrete into steel…

06.01.2007 3:43 pm

Chrysler to build new engine plant in Mexico. Bad news for Fenton?

Chrysler Group is investing $570 million to build an engine plant in Saltillo, Mexico, near an existing plant where it assembles the Dodge Ram pickup, the company said Friday.

This will make the company’s St. Louis North assembly plant in Fenton the only…

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