Unifor’s tentative deal with Ford offers considerable immediate wage increases, pay hikes in each of the second and third years of the agreement, a C$10,000 ($7,411 USD) signing bonus and a compression of the previous wage grid.
To make service technician jobs women-friendly, the Swedish automaker strives to make doing the work more comfortable by reinventing the shop floor uniform.
We have launched the Automotive News Dealership Salary Survey and want to hear from U.S. employees in jobs ranging from general managers to service technicians. Findings will be published Jan. 22.
Dealers said new-car inventory remains mostly stable in the second week of the UAW strike. But some are readying for a wider range of vehicles to become unavailable if the strike persists and expands to other assembly plants.
Toyota is a key player in a pilot project that uses biogas to produce clean electricity, hydrogen and water for use by the automaker for vehicles coming off ships from Japan.
Jeff Parent starts with an annual base salary of $800,000, a one-time payment of $1.5 million and various stock compensation.
The UAW added 5,600 workers at GM and Stellantis parts depots to its escalating strike, threatening dealerships’ service business, but said it had made ‘real progress’ in talks with Ford.
Lithia’s potentially transformative deal for Pendragon would significantly grow the auto retailer’s U.K. footprint, add a sizable fleet business and give the company a pathway to a dealership management system. But Lithia has competition for the deal after Penske and another firm submitted multiple joint offers for Pendragon.
The Alliance for Automotive Innovation said Friday that because a compliance option is not immediately available that they would abide by NHTSA’s earlier guidance in June.
The stores trading hands between MileOne Autogroup and Atlantic Coast Automotive Group sell Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep, Ram, Chevrolet, Nissan, Hyundai, Acura and Ford brands and are in the Virginia cities of Chesapeake and Newport News.