{"id":14179,"date":"2009-06-09T12:25:16","date_gmt":"2009-06-09T19:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=14179"},"modified":"2009-06-09T12:25:16","modified_gmt":"2009-06-09T19:25:16","slug":"automobile-nascar-rpm-lets-9-employees-go-and-cuts-salaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=14179","title":{"rendered":"Automobile NASCAR &#8211; RPM lets 9 employees go and cuts salaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Richard Petty Motorsports laid off nine employees Monday and reduced salaries throughout the organization, a byproduct of Chrysler\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s bankruptcy filing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">RPM officials took the measures because of anticipated cutbacks from Dodge, a person familiar with the moves told The Associated Press. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because of the ongoing uncertainty surrounding RPM\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s contract with Chrysler.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Chrysler, Dodge\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s parent company, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last month.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In an interview Monday before the organizational cuts, team co-owner Richard Petty acknowledged a disruption to the race team since Chrysler\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s April 30 filing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Everybody sets up a budget of what to do. All of a sudden&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nascar\/news?slug=ap-nascar-dodge-rpmcuts&amp;prov=ap&amp;type=lgns\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Petty Motorsports laid off nine employees Monday and reduced salaries throughout the organization, a byproduct of Chrysler\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s bankruptcy filing. RPM officials took the measures because of anticipated cutbacks from Dodge, a person familiar with the moves told The Associated Press. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because of the ongoing uncertainty surrounding RPM\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-nascar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14180,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14179\/revisions\/14180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}