I find it mildly entertaining that everyone is upset that STL fired all of their engineers… the same ones that designed the car that’s blowing up and shipping with too much oil. Maybe there is a reason the ones that are gone are gone and the ones putting out the fires are still there?
Those same engineers made the Hornet, don’t forget.
Cost cutting
Many of these jobs are gone forever
Or
Replaced by staff at a much lower cost countries
I deal with it daily
If you are involved in the auto industry in Canada & the USA you can see some of the things happening a bit earlier then the general population
Many issues at Windsor Assembly
The new Battery plant in Windsor
The new Battery plant in St Thomas
The new Honda plant in Alliston
40 billion dollars
All within 3 hours of each other
A lot of Asian influence
100K jobs will be lost in 5 years do to EV & you will barely hear a word
These 100K jobs will be replaced with 50K EV jobs & the news will be non stop about the hiring
Its started
Save your pennies