by Joseph Szczesny | Jan 28, 2020
The White House has announced President Trump will visit a plant belonging to Dana Inc., an automotive supplier in Warren, Michigan, to tout the new U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, which replaced NAFTA. The NAFTA replacement agreement was eagerly endorsed by automakers...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Jan 27, 2020
General Motors will invest $2.2 billion in its 35-year-old Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly Plant, transforming an aged factory that had been set to close into one of the most modern in its global network. The transformation will be completed next year, GM President Mark...
by Joseph Szczesny | Jan 23, 2020
Former United Auto Workers Vice President Norwood Jewell reported to a federal correctional institution in Oxford, Wisconsin, to begin a 15-month for violations of the federal Labor Management Act. Jewell, 62, was sentenced to a prison term last August after he...
by Joseph Szczesny | Jan 16, 2020
General Motors said this week more than 1,350 hourly employees at its sites in the U.S. will transition from temporary to regular full-time employment during the first quarter of 2020. The status of the temporary employees was one of the major sticking points during...
by Michael Strong | Jan 9, 2020
The investigation into kickbacks and bribery within the UAW is widening as federal agents are said to be looking into links between newly appointed UAW President Rory Gamble, former VP Jimmy Settles and a union vendor. The Detroit News reported that the probe is...
by Michael Strong | Jan 7, 2020
Federal prosecutors took the investigation into the UAW to another level describing the union’s two previous presidents, Gary Jones and Dennis Williams, as being part of a “racketeering enterprise.” The new charges were leveled in new court documents filed as part of...
by Joseph Szczesny | Dec 19, 2019
After more than a century of building cars and trucks, General Motors is shutting down its Oshawa Assembly operations this week as the company converts the plant to a stamping facility producing aftermarket parts. Approximately 300 employees will continue to...
by Michael Strong | Dec 18, 2019
Automakers will pay nearly $3 billion more in tariffs as a result of the higher content rules set forth in the new version of NAFTA, or the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Trade Agreement, as President Donald Trump has dubbed it. The lofty figure comes from an estimate by the...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Dec 18, 2019
Officials from Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and Groupe PSA have inked a binding memorandum of understanding, or MoU that is expected to led to their formal merger in 12 to 15 months. The agreement, which comes six weeks after the two automakers confirmed they were...
by Michael Strong | Dec 17, 2019
Ford Motor Co. is investing more than $1.45 billion in two Michigan plants to bolster is truck production and development and production of electric and autonomous vehicles. The Dearborn, Michigan-based automaker will add a total of 3,000 jobs at facilities in...
by Paul A. Eisenstein | Dec 17, 2019
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and PSA Group are expected to take the critical next step in their march towards a merger Wednesday by issuing a binding memorandum of understanding. The boards of the two companies were meeting separately on Tuesday to discuss their plans...
by Michael Strong | Dec 13, 2019
General Motors is investing $1.5 billion to update its popular midsize trucks – Chevrolet Colorado and GMC Canyon – including $1 billion at its Wentzville, Missouri plant. While revealing the amount it plans to spend to make remain competitive with the competition...
