United Auto Workers

There are certain characteristics that distinguish older workers from other groups of workers. The Sloan Center report that was availed in the year 2009, for example, indicates that the older workers are more productive compared to their young counterparts (MAERTZ, WILEY, LeROUGE, & CAMPION, 2010). The report also states that older employees are more reliable than the young and they have a high degree of loyalty. It has also been noted that job performance usually becomes better with age, and the older employees, therefore, show high levels of job performance when compared to their young counterparts. The con of their high levels of job performance is that such groups of employees will require low levels of training in the course of them meeting…

Due to the lack of political opportunity and the worsening conditions of black workers, the workers had to take it upon themselves to free themselves from the major exploitation and repression. Black workers were the ones that had the absolute worse conditions and compared to white workers, they worked for the lowest pay, were placed in the most dangerous environments and had the most back breaking work. There were many instances where workers were injured or worse but no one seemed to care…

turn GM was successful because of the people of Flint. The fortunes of Flint take a decidedly downward turn when GM Chair, Roger B. Smith, decides to close eleven GM plants, most in Flint, which means the loss of 30,000 jobs there. Despite GM still making profits in the billions, Smith moves those jobs to new factories in Mexico, where wages are lower. As such, Moore goes on a quest to speak to Smith to find out exactly his rationale for relocating those 30,000 jobs from Flint, thus devastating…

FIVE DOLLAR DAY Wake up, hope for the best, work nine hour days, and still only make $2.25 per day. People were wrestling the economy, but one day the people woke up, hoping for the best, and continuing the same routine, when the origin of “five dollar day” transpired. On January 5, 1914, it was the rise of Henry Ford, when he announced a change that stunned the world. He revealed that Ford Motor Company was doubling its workers’ wages to five dollars a day. Reducing a workweek from six to…

relatively new industry that was sparked by the industrial revolution and pushed into the day-to-day lives of many through the power of major oil companies. Finding an efficient mass transportation system for people has been a consistent issue that even today we have yet to solve. The introduction of the automobile and highway systems is the closest we have come to solving this everlasting problem. Before the automobile, there were other systems of mass transit, such as the early street railways…

The automobile is perhaps one of the world’s most useful inventions. The increasing popularity of automobiles lends its way to globalization; making globalization possible. This singular system of transportation gives people, now termed drivers, the freedom to live where they want and the opportunity to travel and explore the world. Automobiles have also become a mark of one’s socio-economic status. Having more than one automobile becomes both a sign of wealth and a necessity to rural community…

Assignment One: Case Study Analysis Case: Prescott Auto 1. Identification and analysis of key issues/problems 1.1. Shared Understanding of Service Concept Prescott Auto employees does not have a shared understanding of a service concept that will guide the team to know what and how to deliver a certain kind of service to customers. Pycraft, et al. (1997) suggests that a service concept is a set of expected benefits to meet the customers’ needs and expectations. Likewise, Johnston, Clark and…

Navigation equipment, voice activation, hybrids and electric cars are all new technologies, and the mechanics are being continually trained. Diesel vehicles also have changed - they are way more clean and efficient compared to old vehicles. The training for auto technicians today is incredible. The industry is moving extremely fast with technology. Nowadays even basic cars are fully equipped with technology making buyers driving fun but hard for mechanics to work. There was a time when you could…

The Job Of An Auto Repair Technician.” This article was published in The Washington Post on May 26, 2013 and was written by Sarah Halzack. The article discusses major changes over the last few years and also eludes to how there are going to be numerous, rapidly continuing changes over the coming years in the job requirements of an auto mechanic. One of the first changes is that what was once known as an “auto mechanic” has evolved into being an “auto technician” requiring much more skill the…

Street racing sport grew over time after World War II when G.I.’s had worked on both car and plane engines, then G.I’s started working on their own cars after the war ended. In the United States, street racing became popular in the 1950s when C.J. “Pappy” Hart brought the drag racing to Orange County, California. Hart’s was the first drag strip charged admission at the Orange County Airport. There are three types of street racing: an impromptu race occurs spontaneously; an organized race is…