Thousands of American workers are returning to their manufacturing jobs at Ford, General Motors (GM), and Fiat Chrysler this week after shuttering for nearly two months amid the Chinese coronavirus crisis.
Detroit (AP) — Ford and General Motors are confirming that they will temporarily close all of their North American factories due to the coronavirus threat.
The United Auto Workers (UAW) union is asking Ford, General Motors (GM), and Fiat Chrysler to temporarily close their plants to protect American workers from contracting the coronavirus.
Lee Iacocca, the auto industry executive and master pitchman who put the Mustang in Ford’s lineup in the 1960s and became a corporate folk hero when he resurrected Chrysler 20 years later, has died in Bel Air, California. He was 94.
Michigan Chrysler mechanic Chris Vitale said Wednesday that President Donald Trump has “won legions of fans” because he has shown that he will “fight for us.”
Ford Motor Company executives have announced a new investment in American workers and the state of Michigan with plans to invest $900 million in the United States, set to create 900 U.S. jobs.
Japanese automaker Toyota will add 600 American manufacturing jobs with a $13 billion investment in the United States by 2021, executives revealed Thursday.
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) will reopen an idled Detroit engine plant, invest billions into five existing Michigan plants, and create about 6,500 U.S. auto jobs in a move reflecting President Trump’s economic nationalist agenda.
Fiat Chrysler plans to build the first new assembly plant in the U.S. from a major automaker in over a decade.
Conservationists erupted in criticism over Fiat Chrysler’s Super Bowl ad for its Jeep brand claiming that the commercial glorifies the “destruction of aquatic habitats” for showing a vehicle plowing through a stream at high speed.
“This notion of making a car in Mexico which has got nearly 100 percent utilization in the United States is a bit bizarre,” Fiat Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne said.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said bonuses–up to $2,000–that companies are handing out as a result of President Trump’s tax reform plan are “crumbs” but praised former President Barack Obama’s $40 tax cut for workers in 2011.
Donald Trump’s threat to take the U.S. out of NAFTA is likely behind Fiat Chrysler’s decision to move Ram truck production back to America.
Doubts about whether the Trump administration would allow a sale to China.
Bloomberg News reported that the U.S. Justice Department is preparing a lawsuit against Fiat Chrysler after failing to settle EPA claims that the company’s diesel engines used software to cheat emissions tests — just as Volkswagen did.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government accused Fiat Chrysler on Thursday of failing to disclose software in some of its pickups and SUVs with diesel engines that allows them to emit more pollution than allowed under the Clean Air Act.
The American consumer resists marketing aimed at selling them electric and hybrid vehicles. For the first quarter of 2015, according to the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), Chevrolet sold 1,874 Volts—its electric car introduced in 2010 with “high expectations.” That roughly equals the number of Silverado pick-up trucks sold in one day.
The European Commission (EC) has ruled that a deal between Starbucks and Dutch tax officials five years ago is unlawful state aid, effectively over-ruling a sovereign nation’s legal jurisdiction in favour of its own decree. A separate agreement between Fiat Chrysler
The states of Michigan, Kansas, and Missouri are considering new sanctions against the Iranian regime and companies doing business with it–whatever the fate of the Iran deal in Congress.
