Archive for the ‘Employment’ Category
Tuesday, March 17th, 2009
There's supposed to be something resembling free trade between Korea and the U.S. regarding cars, but the truth is that it's pretty much a one-way market (we buy theirs, but they block ours) and now the Obama administration and the Congress may do something about it. It's costs thousands of ...
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Thursday, January 15th, 2009
By Alex Law
Many people are talking about the need to "buy American" the next time they shop for a new car, and my informed opinion (25 years of covering the auto industry) is that purchasing a vehicle from Ford or GM is a sound economic decision for the consumer as ...
Posted in Advice, Buying Tips, Dealerships, Driving Matters, Employment, Is There A Lesson Here?, Our View, Product News, Sales, Warnings | No Comments »
Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
In an effort to offset any more gigantic sales drops, Hyundai will let people return their new car if they lose their jobs within the first year of the purchase. The Korean car company has offered this program in Canada before, but it's believed that this is a first in ...
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Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008
After taking billions and billions of dollars in profit back to Japan and Korea from selling cars to North Americans but refusing to buy cars from us under almost any circumstances, the Asian car companies are now feeling the pinch of the economic depression they helped to create here with ...
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Sunday, December 21st, 2008
It may not be the best time for unionized auto workers, but their history in Detroit and what it means for everyone on the continent's future should not be ignored.
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Monday, December 1st, 2008
It's likely that there will be cutbacks to government services and projects are coming, due to the reduction in taxes from new car sales across the country. Car-crazy California is going to feel it in particular.
Posted in Dealerships, Employment, Financing | No Comments »
Thursday, November 20th, 2008
Taking old cars, repairing them and giving them to needy families is a fairly straightforward idea, and it has immediate affects on their lives and the local economy.
Posted in Employment, Is There A Lesson Here?, Parts, Program For Change, Repairs, Save Money | No Comments »
Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
Unless people can get financing, they won't be able to afford the vehicles they want and if they're not buying then lots of people will lose their jobs. That, essentially, is the reasoning behind a push by legislators looking to help buyers out.
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Monday, September 15th, 2008
While the auto is run almost exclusively by caucasian males in Europe and Asian males in Japan and Korea, the North American companies are substantially more diverse, and nowhere is that more obvious than at General Motors. This week the company is showing off about 24 men and women -- ...
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Monday, September 1st, 2008
Fixing cars for a living is still overwhelmingly a job done by men, but when a woman does move into auto service it seems to work out well. It certainly did for this young woman in Connecticut.
Posted in Dealerships, Employment, Is There A Lesson Here?, Program For Change, Repairs | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
The mayor of one of Michigan's biggest cities may not be totally bi-partisan, but there's no doubt that he makes some extremely interesting points about the modern international car market. He also makes the claim that local products are often better and safer.
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Thursday, August 7th, 2008
Apparently a lot of Americans plan to do a lot less driving in the future, in response to the higher cost of fuel. Respondents to a survey said their intent was to keep up the driving they had to do (work and so on), but cut back on driving for ...
Posted in Driving Matters, Employment, Gas Issues, Is There A Lesson Here?, Program For Change, Save Money | No Comments »
Sunday, August 3rd, 2008
Guest workers in Japan taken advantage of to keep down costs in expensive hybrid Prius, New York human rights group claims.
Posted in Employment, Is There A Lesson Here?, Technology | No Comments »
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
Barbara Wieland has a look at women and employment at auto dealerships. Ms Wieland finds that slowly, but surely, more and more women are working at dealerships and thriving.
She writes "Sherrill Freeborough was a young widow with a small child who needed to find a way to support her family. ...
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Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
An interesting story from India today. Women entrepreneurs have just begun to build an automotive industrial estate in a village with a focus on training youth, particularly rural girls. Read more about female business leaders and auto park.
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Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Bob Attrell conducts an interview with Stacey Polyschuk, one of a few women dealership owners in Toronto. It starts:
Q: You became a dealer principal almost a year ago. What's it been like?
A: It's been everything I dreamed it would be, and more. Every aspect of the job – the people, ...
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Friday, June 13th, 2008
There's an unusual story today in the Wall St Journal about Wendy Walker, author of Four Wives and mother of three children. She had the same problem as many other parents do: trying to find a quiet place. Wendy tried many different locations but settled on writing in her Ford ...
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Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
Canada's national newspaper, Globe and Mail, has a good story about what Nissan is doing to 'chip away at Japan's concrete ceiling'.
It starts: " When her superiors at Nissan Motor Co. offered Keiko Hoshino a job as a manager, she hesitated. After 17 years at the Japanese auto maker, she ...
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