Massive hiring by several vehicle manufacturers is a telling sign that the auto industry has straightened out of its skid. General Motors and Honda are looking for a combined 3,500 new workers, and Volkswagen added 2,000 employees at a new plant.
The AP reports the industry's hiring rate outpaces other sectors of the sluggish economy. The industry's current level of 700,000 employees is a 12 percent rise from 2009. Customers are helping out by buying a projected 13 million rides this year, up from 10.4 million in 2009.
If you're involved with the auto industry, how has the culture changed over the past couple years?
Auto industry, seeing new life, on hiring spree [AP via MSNBC]
2 comments:
Unfortunately GM isn't hiring the long time highly effective people that they laid off a couple of years ago. Instead they are hiring young people they can get cheap.
Don'e count on any career with GM, there efforts are in China.
When you buy a GM vehicle now, you are supporting the bloated union benefits and supporting GM's investment into China.
BOYCOTT GM!
Still you will not buy a Quality car from GM as long as they have to use union workers they will produce an awful product.... I drive VW and will only buy VW... The new VW plant in tennesse is not a UAW plant and will produce a far better product
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