Saturday, May 30, 2009

Iacocca losing pension, life-long company car in Chrysler bankruptcy

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Lee Iacocca, the car executive credited with saving Chrysler from bankruptcy in the 1980s, is to lose a big chunk of his pension and a guaranteed life-long company car due to the U.S. automaker's bankruptcy filing two decades later.

Chrysler CEO Robert Nardelli told a U.S. bankruptcy court on Thursday that Iacocca's pension would be among the obligations Chrysler will no longer have to pay if it gets bankruptcy court approval to sell itself to a "New Chrysler" to be owned by its union, the U.S. and Canadian governments and Fiat SpA.
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1 comment:

airJackie said...

I remember when Iacocca said you have find a better car buy it. Now with all his hard word bringing that company back from the dead they hang him out to dry. Greed took over and never stopped.