Fiat Chrysler deal gives Detroit residents 1st crack at jobs

Associated Press ^ | August 11, 2019 | Corey Williams

[Olog-hai]

Marie Davis wants better medical insurance coverage. Jimmie Pleasant has been out of work for six months.

Both are among the thousands of people who are looking for jobs with Fiat Chrysler under a city program that gives Detroit’s residents first crack at the application process. It’s part of a $108 million land development deal between an automaker that’s building a massive new plant and a city where the unemployment rate is more than twice the national average.

Detroit officials hope the deal with Fiat Chrysler will mean residents have a better shot at good-paying jobs with the automaker, although Fiat Chrysler is obligated only to consider Detroit residents for the work before opening up the jobs to others. Fiat Chrysler is getting land and tax breaks to build in Detroit. […]

Detroit has made gains since its 2014 exit from the largest municipal bankruptcy in history, and its population seems to have stabilized at around 680,000 — less than half of the 1.8 million who lived there in the 1950s. …

[FreedomPoster]

"Detroit residents 1st crack"?

[DariusBane]

Can you read? No? Pass a drug test? No? Follow simple instructions? No? You’re hired!

[rktman]

Hmmmm? Crack or a job. Hmmmmmm?

[stylin19a]

Good on Detroit.

The city also agreed to give Fiat Chrysler about $12.1 million in property tax abatements.

The city\state are giving Fiat the land and abating real estate taxes. If this were in AOC's distict in NY, this would be a no go.

[pangaea6]

Of course no mention of how Trumps policies helped them decide to build a plant there instead of china or mexico

[bicyclerepair]

Chrysler,a car company that makes crap, bought by an Italian car company that makes worse crap is hiring any old body that feels like making crap.

[stylin19a]

so...Yugo redux ?

[blam]

"Can you read? No? Pass a drug test? No? Follow simple instructions? No? You’re hired!"

Report: Nearly Half Of Detroiters Can’t Read

"DETROIT (WWJ) – According to a new report, 47 percent of Detroiters are “functionally illiterate.” The alarming new statistics were released by the Detroit Regional Workforce Fund on Wednesday."

BTW, this is all White Supremacist Donald Trump's doing.

[Jmouse007]

Crap company building crappie cars in America.

Want to know about Fiat Chrysler? Just listen to Scotty Kilmer on YouTube. He will tell you everything you need to know about “Chrysler”.

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