Oct. 31, 2007 (LPAC) -- Only one day after a new contract was signed, Chrysler today began firing about 1,100 contract workers (employees hired via a separate company), according to the Detroit News. Today's terminations amounted to about one-third of the contract workers, with another round to be let go at the end of November and December. The automaker will also cut 1,000 salaried workers beginning in November; and reduce factory shifts at some assembly plants, as it drops four models from its vehicle lineup amid falling sales.

The layoffs come only a day after a new contract, supposedly promising that jobs were safe from the chopping block, was ratified by the United Auto Workers. Chrysler, now under the ownership of the blood thirsty Cerberus Capital Management, already had eliminated 11,000 hourly workers and 2,000 salaried employees through buyouts/early retirements, as part of its self-described "recovery and transformation" plan.

Cerberus, the hound of hell, was the three-headed dog with a snake for a tail who guarded the entrance to Hades.