Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Chrysler responds to complaints over how Tuesday’s storm was handled

In the case of the recent snow storm in Illinois, Chrysler Group decided to continue its second shift operation at the Belvidere Assembly Plant on Tuesday, Feb. 1 as conditions at the time did not warrant an early release. In fact, nearly all second shift employees reported for work. Some assembly employees, however, were sent home early due to a parts shortage. For those employees that chose not to be on the road after their shift, the Company and the UAW made overnight accommodations available to them.

Across Chrysler Group’s manufacturing operations, essential personnel were told to report to work during the peak of the storm in spite of decisions to cancel production shifts. The third shift – which is primarily a maintenance shift – at the Belvidere facility is considered an essential and critical operation and therefore, a decision was made not to cancel it.

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McHenry County Blog | Woodstock Cancels Groundhog Day

 

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Unauthorized Immigrant Population: <br>National and State Trends, 2010 - Pew Hispanic Center

 

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As of March 2010, 11.2 million unauthorized immigrants were living in the United States, virtually unchanged from a year earlier, according to new estimates from the Pew Hispanic Center, a project of the Pew Research Center. This stability in 2010 follows a two-year decline from the peak of 12 million in 2007 to 11.1 million in 2009 that was the first significant reversal in a two-decade pattern of growth. Unauthorized immigrants were 3.7% of the nation's population in 2010.

Mexico, which went down to 6.5 million in 2010 from 7 million in 2007. Mexicans remain the largest group of unauthorized immigrants, accounting for 58% of the total

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National and State Trends, 2010 - Pew Hispanic Center

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

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