The auto factory Pinault proposed to replace had been a site of labor demonstrations.
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At 19, Lula lost the little finger on his left hand in an auto factory mishap.
Up in Michigan, Buchanan country, the average daily absentee rate in a union auto factory is 10% to 12%.
In 1987 after being laid off from an auto factory job I went through a short course at a community college in Michigan.
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While the auto factory was paid by its dealers with constantly depreciating rubles or even worse quality IOUs, Berezovsky received dollars for the cars he sold.
Avtovaz was selling its cars at a loss to Berezovsky's dealership, Logovaz, and engaging Logovaz to handle its finances at the same time that the top executives at the auto factory benefited personally from the relationship as Logovaz shareholders.
Nissan (nasdaq: NSANY - news - people ) can't afford any mistakes as it challenges a work force that had never seen the inside of an auto factory to launch five models in less than a year at one new plant--an unprecedented schedule for any North American automaker.
The Russell Industrial Center is an abandoned auto body factory turned artists' haven, where more than 250 artists, craftsmen, designers and entrepreneurs have studios in the colossal warehouse.
U.S. stocks closed at a record highs Tuesday after reports on auto sales and factory orders provided the latest evidence that the U.S. economy is strengthening.
Among reports of recent weeks that came in better than forecasts were consumer sentiment, retail sales, home sales, construction spending, auto sales, factory orders, the ISM Mfg Index, the ISM Non-Mfg (service sector) Index, and so on.
Audi was the first global auto manufacturer to offer factory-fitted in-vehicle Wi-Fi connectivity with the launch of Audi connect in 2011.
But Wagoner also announced a tentative agreement with the United Auto Workers that would have factory workers pay for more of their health care benefits.
That makes retail sales, home sales, auto sales, consumer sentiment, factory orders and the like much more indicative of the economic recovery than the employment reports.
Tata Motors-owned Jaguar Land Rover is also reportedly building a factory there, to meet auto demand and probably to avoid higher taxes on imported cars recently enacted by the country.
"It's been a great car, " remarked Keith Slep who runs an auto repair shop a few miles from the factory.
The construction of the factory led to speculation that the auto maker might shift its manufacturing base from Haryana because of the labor problems there.
Now, let there be no doubt, it will take an unprecedented effort on all our parts -- from the halls of Congress to the boardroom, from the union hall to the factory floor -- to see the auto industry through these difficult times.
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In economic news, expect to hear data on auto sales on Tuesday, crude inventories on Wednesday, factory orders on Thursday, and consumer credit on Friday.
Instead, it farmed that work out to asc, a Detroit-area auto supplier that will help train workers at the GM factory where the 15, 000 Chevys will be built each year.
The scaremongers like to talk about 3 million jobs lost, all things considered, which means not just the factory and white-collar workers of the auto company but the parts suppliers, dealers, repair garages and hot dog stands outside the factories.
Penske was what the auto industry calls an independent distributor, a middleman between the factory and the dealer network.
With his appearance at a Toledo factory today, President Obama seems to want to make the auto bailout a campaign issue.
Many parts and even whole cars are simply stolen from the factory, only to turn up soon after in criminally connected auto dealerships.
It is not far fetched to posit that by 2010, most auto manufacturers will build one or both systems into their cars at the factory.
The suppliers will also be permitted to use their Windsor operations to do side jobs for other auto companies--something that Chrysler would never allow in a traditional factory.
Folz says that he sees "perhaps better immediate opportunities" in Latin America (Argentina and Brazil in particular), Eastern Europe (Poland and Turkey) and China, where Peugeot has a joint venture with Dong Feng Motors (an auto assembly plant that can turn out 150, 000 vehicles a year plus an engine and gearbox factory).
Despite angry opposition to a potential bailout, auto companies contend that if they go bankrupt, there will be huge job losses, not only on factory floors, but also in dealerships and parts suppliers.
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