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...After winning record pay increases for 146,000 auto workers at Ford, General Motors and Stellantis, the United Auto Workers union is now rolling out a three-year, $40mn campaign to organise workers at 13...
...When Toys R Us arrived in the country in the mid 1990s, it also initially eschewed collective bargaining....
...Because electric vehicles require fewer parts to produce, the move away from gas-guzzling engines risks job loss in the auto sector, with Ford chief Jim Farley expecting 40 per cent fewer workers....
...The town in the Midwestern corn belt is home to the manufacturing operations of Rivian, the battery-powered vehicle start-up worth more than Ford or Volkswagen soon after it listed 18 months ago....
...United Auto Workers, the 391,000 member union that represents workers at General Motors, Stellantis and Ford, elected a new president in March who has also pledged to be tougher on employers....
...invasion of Ukraine knocked all global auto stocks....
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...An engineer at heart Musk’s impact on the global auto industry has been a long time coming....
...Instead, Scaringe decided to create an adventure brand in the mould of North Face or GoPro, spending a decade quietly developing battery tech and designs before unveiling two models at the LA Auto Show in...
...In Europe, Renault rival Groupe PSA and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles completed a merger and formed a new auto group, Stellantis, which became the fourth-largest auto group after the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi...
...A quintessential mom-and-pop retailer, Norman’s is situated in a one-traffic-light town....
...His firm makes components for dashboard instruments in Ford and General Motors cars. Until now, however, the auto industry has been declared non-essential....
...“Every time we went into town, I went to the bookstore.”...
...The shelves normally filled with paper goods at Albertsons supermarkets are now emptied by mid-morning as consumers across the US stockpile toilet rolls....
...For the quarter ended March 31 — a period during which the US auto industry as a whole showed unexpected strength in sales after a slower 2017 — Ford reported net income of $1.7bn, up 9 per cent year-on-year...
...“Management adopting a less confrontational style should help investors revisit the investment case,” said Philippe Houchois, an auto analyst at Jefferies....
...So in fact, yes, in the history of the American auto industry, it's always worth bearing in mind that only two have not gone bankrupt, and that's Ford and Tesla....
...The worst affected areas are Midwestern and southern metropolitan areas and small towns....
...If successful, Apollo would allow Baidu to become the auto equivalent of Google’s Android software for smartphones....
...Harley Facades Based in the genteel market town of Crowborough, East Sussex, Harley executed the £2.6m contract to provide over-cladding for Grenfell Tower but has removed the case study from its website...
...Ford today announced US vehicle sales were down 8 per cent year-on-year in August to 214,482 vehicles, steeper than analysts had forecast and heightening concerns that the long running boom in the US auto...
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...The Pacifica, unveiled at this year’s Detroit auto show, is a replacement for Fiat Chrysler’s ageing Town & Country model....
...Among them will be a new version of the Town and Country minivan from Fiat Chrysler and a big SUV from GM’s GMC premium truck brand....
...Cross-town rival Ford last week launched its FordPass app, which bundles together the company’s various mobility projects. German carmakers have also started down this road....
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