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Center For Automotive Research: Detroit Beating The Wage Gap
Speaking at the same Detroit conference on the auto bailout that Steve Rattner and Ron Bloom attended, the Center for Automotive Research’s Sean McAlinden proclaimed the end of Detroit’s era of...
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UAW Fires Back On Wage Parity
Yesterday, we greeted news that Detroit had reached wage parity with transplants by noting that it hardly makes the UAW look great in the eyes of its membership. Sure enough, UAW boss-in-waiting Bob...
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Who’s Unhappy About Higher Wages, Stronger Currency in China? The Japanese....
It stands to reason that Japanese car makers would rejoice over rising wages in competing China and over an appreciating Chinese currency. Rising wages make production there more expensive, a rising...
View ArticleIs China’s Cheap Labor A Thing Of The Past?
The prospect of a Chinese auto industry growing at insane speed thanks to a booming market and resiliently low wages has long kept auto industry execs up at night, most notably inspiring Sergio...
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UAW Backs Off Transplant Organizing Goal, Attacks Hyundai
At the beginning of this year, the United Auto Workers pledged that it would launch a campaign to organize the foreign-owned, non-union “transplant” factories in the US, threatening to tar...
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QOTD: Skin In The Game
With negotiations between the UAW and the Big Three set to open next year, FCA head Sergio Marchionne has already fired the first shots, calling for an end to the two-tier wage system and a new pay...
View ArticleMore Ford Production Heads South of the Border, Down Mexico Way
In an announcement that’s been anticipated for months, Ford Motor Company said today it will build a small car plant in Mexico’s San Luis Potosi state. Ford will spend $1.6 billion on the facility,...
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