How much prison labor goes into the making of your car? At the very least, until a few days ago if you were driving a Hyundai, the answer was likely some. After facing public scrutiny for the use of prison labor, a supplier to the...
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People are terrible drivers, but it's not entirely clear that machines are better drivers. When a person hits someone, it's not really a big news story. But when AI hits.
This is a really big deal, truly unprecedented in modern German history. Volkswagen (VOWG_p.DE), opens new tab plans to shut at least three factories in Germany, lay off tens of thousands of.
I was thinking of the Tesla "truck" thing and how that is the ugliest vehicle of all time. Then I looked up what were the ugliest cars of all time. One list has the 58 Thunderbird near the top. Not having anything better to post...
The United Auto Workers are not messing around with Stellantis continuing to pretend like they don't have a serious union to deal with. The United Auto Workers’ rift with Stellantis.
One thing Shawn Fain noted in his speech at the DNC on Monday is that Stellantis has reneged on its contract agreement to reopen a closed plant in Illinois. Fain.
It's not surprising that the first union contract at an all-EV company would come in the old Lordstown plant, home of one of the most important strikes of the 1970s. But when GM closed that plant, the workers lost their union. Now they have it...
I don't write much about international labor standards these days, since basically it has completely disappeared from our political world, even on the left. To think about this would take.
As you have probably seen by now, the United Auto Workers lost in their bid to unionize Mercedes. They had over 70 percent of the workers sign cards, but when.
This is the grave of John and Horace Dodge. John Dodge was born in 1864 and his little brother Horace in 1868. They grew up in Niles, Michigan where their father ran a machine shop. The boys were both very into what their father did...
A Seagull electric vehicle from Chinese automaker BYD for test driving is parked outside a showroom in Beijing, Wednesday, April 10, 2024. The tiny, low-priced electric vehicle called the Seagull.
As the UAW gears up to have the election at the Mercedes-Benz to unionize the plant, Mercedes has been reeling and struggling to respond. Despite the anger it has caused.