Robots Are Looking Better to Detroit as Labor Costs Rise
Automakers are looking to an old friend to help offset rising labor costs: robots.For decades, car companies have increased automation...
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Is This Football Coach the Best Turnaround CEO in America?
Updated Jan. 6, 2024 12:14 am ETJim Harbaugh regularly says the kind of stuff that would sound completely ridiculous coming...
Mary Barra Spent a Decade Transforming GM. It Hasn’t Been Enough.
Updated Dec. 16, 2023 12:04 am ETListen to article(2 minutes)At a 2018 meeting with a senior General Motors team, Chief...
A Trip to CosMc’s, McDonald’s New Space-Themed Takeout Chain
By Heather Haddon | Photography by Lucy Hewett for The Wall Street Journal BOLINGBROOK, Ill.—CosMc’s has landed, but visiting now...
Bayer Told to Pay $1.56 Billion After Losing Roundup Case
Updated Nov. 18, 2023 7:43 pm ETBayer faces a payout of $1.56 billion after a Missouri jury found in favor...
America’s Mortgage King Also Wants an NBA Crown—Right Now
Listen to article(1 minute)When the Phoenix Suns played the Detroit Pistons early this month, Mat Ishbia’s fingerprints were everywhere.He bought...
New Breed of Supercomputer Aims for the Two Quintillion Mark
That’s two billion billion operations a second, enough to explore the brain and discover drugs. Source link
The UAW’s Next Challenge: Getting Workers to Vote Yes
United Auto Workers leaders bargained for months and called a historic strike before clinching tentative agreements with Detroit’s automakers. Now,...
The UAW Beat Detroit. Tesla Will Be a Different Beast.
A fight between union leader Shawn Fain and billionaire Elon Musk would be epic. But Fain, the factory worker who rose to...
Detroit Is Paying Up to End the UAW Strike. Now Carmakers Will Live With the Costs.
Updated Oct. 30, 2023 12:50 pm ETThe United Auto Workers campaign against Detroit’s three automakers can be described as one...
GM Scales Back EV Plans as Buyers Hesitate
Updated Oct. 24, 2023 12:28 pm ETGeneral Motors is abandoning a self-imposed target to build 400,000 electric vehicles by mid-2024,...
Electric Cars Were Already Having Issues. Then Things Got Political.
The EV transition is running head on into polarizing politics.Already this year, pricier electric vehicles got even more expensive for...
New Playground, New Court, New Classroom? Thank Ozempic.
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Meatpacking Plant Closures Cut Deep for Small-Town Economies
Tyson Foods and other meat processors are closing plants amid high costs and falling demand, spelling economic turbulence for the...
UAW Expands Strike to GM Plant in Michigan, Ford Factory in Chicago
Union President Shawn Fain cited a lack of progress at the bargaining table as walkouts enter their third week. Source...
Ford Averts Second Strike, Secures New Labor Contract in Canada
Talks with Unifor have been running parallel to those in the U.S. with the UAW, an unusual overlap that has...
Talks Resume in Detroit Amid Threat of Expanding Strike
Wages remain focal point, and investors already are sizing up the potential hits to the automakers’ bottom lines. Source link
Whatever the UAW Strike Outcome, Elon Musk Has Already Won
The Detroit automakers entered labor talks at a cost disadvantage to Tesla. Source link
UAW Goes on Strike Against GM, Ford and Stellantis
The walkouts are the first to hit all three automakers at the same time and affect factories in Missouri, Ohio...
In Detroit, UAW’s Strike Threat Overshadows a Shrunken Auto Show
The annual car event, which has had a choppy run recently, comes amid intensifying contract talks between automakers and workers....
