Sales numbers for the new Jeep Wranglers are up. Unfortunately sales numbers for Dodge Nitro are weak, and [3,000 Chrysler employees](http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071005/BUSINESS02/710050405/-1/BUSINESS “Chrysler Employees”) will be out of work for 2 weeks as the plant that manufactures the Nitro and the Jeep Liberty will shut down.
>Chrysler LLC said it has added two hours to one shift at the factories making the Wrangler and will add those hours to a second shift starting Monday. Those factories, which the company said had been working eight-hour shifts five days a week, have 1,350 Chrysler and supplier workers.
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>The extra production comes after a United Auto Workers leader said Toledo Jeep could make only 583 Wranglers a day but demand was for more than 1,000 a day.
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>“The public can’t get enough of them,� said Bruce Baumhower, UAW Local 12 president at Toledo Jeep. Hearing about the added production time yesterday, he said, “It’s great that vehicle has exceeded everybody’s expectation and I hope it continues until they have to put on a third shift and hire more workers.�
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