GRAZIE MILLE AMERICA! (2)

This is what Fiat inherited from the American taxpayers: A bunch of pot smoking, boozing union workers. I suspect this type of behavior is common throughout the auto industry.

YOU JUST CAN'T FIX STUPID
By Jerry Reynolds

The Car Pro Weekly
July 21-2011

The Fox TV station in Detroit has again caught on video Chrysler union workers smoking dope and drinking before work and on their lunch break.

This time it was not in a public park, but in the parking lot of their nearby United Auto Workers union hall, before they headed back to finish their shift at Chrysler Group's Trenton engine plant that builds the new Fiat 4-cylinder for world use.

FOX 2 reporter Rob Wolchek says he got calls from two workers in the plant who told him that working with people who have been getting high is dangerous.

This is the same Fox reporter who last fall caught workers at Chrysler's Jefferson North Plant in Detroit spending their lunch hour drinking beer before going back to build the newly launched Jeep Grand Cherokee. The video was a severe embarrassment for Chrysler, which took action against the workers, and for the union.

The station says Chrysler sent people to the station to review the latest video and the station posted on its website this reaction from Scott Garberding, Chrysler senior vice president of manufacturing:

"I just want to say I am both hurt and angered over what your cameras captured. Again, we have Chrysler workers in a compromised position, without regard for the impact of their actions, the reputation of their coworkers, the plant, of the company, not to mention their own reputation and that of their families.

"As a company, in the last two years we've come too far and made way too much progress to let the bad actions of a few put a shadow on the rest of the employees."

Late update: Chrysler Group announced it has identified and suspended without pay nine union workers caught on video drinking and smoking marijuana before their shifts and on their lunch break. Chrysler said it identified the workers using the Fox2 video and has suspended them pending an investigation that will determine their final fate.