And together with Labor Secretary Solis and my Auto Task Force, Ed will help provide support to auto workers and their families, and open up opportunity to manufacturing communities in Michigan and Ohio and Indiana and every other state that relies on the auto industry.
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Feldman and Wilson, who have been advising the Teamsters since last summer, also worked together on President Barack Obama's auto task force during the government's rescue of General Motors and Chrysler.
In recent months, my Auto Task Force has been reviewing requests by General Motors and Chrysler for additional government assistance, as well as plans developed by each of these companies to restructure, to modernize, and to make themselves more competitive.
WHITEHOUSE: President Obama on Stabilizing the Auto Industry
In the cases of both GM and Chrysler, the administration's Auto Task Force was not impressed that the companies haven't been able to modify their agreements with the UAW on compensation reductions, severance pay and a union-managed health care trust.
Yet, thanks to President Obama's auto task-force and a shotgun marriage with Fiat, Chrysler motors wearily on.
Senior members of the auto task-force found Chrysler to be better run in some ways than GM.
And the government needed to tax gasoline more to create higher prices and force the auto manufacturers to build more efficient cars.
Dowdy's past also includes time in prison for seven felony convictions on charges including burglary, grand larceny, auto theft, escape by force and bodily injury to a correctional officer.
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But Painter no doubt learned a hard lesson about how difficult it is to force change in the auto industry.
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Also, Kokomo, Indiana, it's a small city with big issues, nearly a quarter of the work force building cars and auto parts.
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Ford Motor's contract with the United Auto Workers (UAW) is in force until September 2003, and provisions within the pact prohibit plant closings.
As I have said before, softness in housing and autos frequently leads the economy into recessions, and housing and auto sales are almost always the driving force that pulls the economy out of recessions.
The Japanese auto industry is likely to remain a potent force, but increasingly manufacturers will supply their brands from plants that are less vulnerable to earthquakes, exchange rates and other disadvantages that have been making the Land of the Rising Sun a difficult place to do business.
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 keyboard more or less requires "faith" in the word auto-correction, an Apple rep likened it to using The Force, and while all three reviewers were able to get up to speed sooner or later, it's most certainly agreed that this is no BlackBerry-killer.
The idea of a single "Car Czar" to oversee the rebuilding of the auto industry is now out the window, replaced by a task force led by Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and National Economic Council Director Larry Summers, two of the most over-extended men in the history of American government.
At the Los Angeles Auto Show this week Mercedes-Benz has unveiled its Ener-G-Force concept SUV, a seven-passenger giant expected get 550 horsepower and 560 pound-feet of torque.
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