When we got beyond the auto plant, Beckord pointed out some of the promising initiatives in town.
Now, just a few weeks before I visited that auto plant, 14 of its employees won the lottery.
It paid off in Lordstown, where GM is investing hundreds of millions of dollars in their auto plant.
WHITEHOUSE: Remarks by the President at a Campaign Event -- Hilliard, OH
The President -- just last week at an auto plant outside of Chicago that makes the Explorer that will be exported to 90 countries.
An acquaintance of mine had an uncle who spent 25 years at an auto plant in Flint, Michigan tacking chrome strips and other finish parts onto automobiles.
Manufacturing lost 15, 000 jobs, including a 7, 500 drop in motor vehicles and parts, which is partly payback for there having been relatively few seasonal auto plant shutdowns in July.
Today it's not uncommon for suppliers to build large chunks of an automobile--a complete dashboard or a front-end module, say--at their own factories, then ship them to the auto plant for final assembly.
Toyoda said Hogan was someone he trusted, having known him since they worked together more than a decade ago at NUMMI, or New United Motor Manufacturing, a California auto plant jointly run by Toyota and GM.
Hogan, an independent consultant and former GM group vice president, has been Toyoda's friend since they worked together more than a decade ago at NUMMI, or New United Motor Manufacturing, a California auto plant jointly run by Toyota and GM.
Mr. JOHN MCWHORTER (Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute): Well, you know, there was a grand period from the '20s into the 1960s when it was possible for a black man, or sometimes a woman, with no education to have a good solid job in an auto plant.
When he got out of the service, he found a job in an auto parts plant near Pittsburgh.
Ford is turning paint fumes--the scourge of any auto manufacturing plant--into clean electricity.
Fisker was supposed to be producing cars this year at an old General Motors-United Auto Workers plant in Delaware.
Labor Department data is adjusted for seasonal labor shifts, like summer auto-plant shutdowns, and receives a number of revisions before a final number is tallied.
On Wednesday, Obama toured an auto parts plant in Asheville, North Carolina, and urged Congress to support the jobs agenda in his address the night before.
Kentucky Truck, the largest auto assembly plant in the US and the home of the Ford F-Series, ran tight over the summer to keep up with demand and from the looks of it Ford dealers will still be running short on trucks.
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).
After touring the Linamar Corporation auto-parts plant, the President cited the significant role manufacturing plays in a thriving economy.
The deal called for the two companies to reopen Fremont, re-hired United Auto Workers members, and run the plant under the Toyota Production System.
Dinwiddie said he has been working with General Motors on a daily basis, and has invited President Obama and the auto recovery czar to come and tour the plant.
Magna unit Cosma International will manufacture Skyline's systems at a metal stamping plant that is still in use for auto parts work.
Is there anything like that that you can preview for us about why they chose -- why you chose that plant and what in terms of the auto piece is going to come out of the state visit?
Automakers will take up the thorny issue of plant closings in contract talks with the United Auto Workers later this year.
But the big auto companies, saddled with huge labor commitments and billions invested in plant and equipment, can go only so fast in shedding factories.
The plant in Belvidere, Illinois, which produces the slow-selling Neon, seemed a sure bet to be shuttered, but Chrysler inadvertently outsmarted itself two years ago, when it agreed to restrictions on plant shutdowns as part of its contract with the United Auto Workers union.
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.
Ford Motor's contract with the United Auto Workers (UAW) is in force until September 2003, and provisions within the pact prohibit plant closings.
Last week, the plant celebrated Spark EV motor production, marking the first time a major U.S. auto manufacturer has designed and built both a complete electric motor and drive unit for a modern electric vehicle in the United States.
ENGADGET: Chevy Spark EV rated most efficient retail car with 82-mile range, 119 MPGe
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