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Is Toyota's Brakes Disaster Tied to How It Treats Workers Like Profit-Oriented Robots?

Joseph B. Atkins, Progressive Populist. March 24, 2010.

Toyota's boasts about having a workplace democracy, but its production model seems more interested in worker control.

U.S. Car Buyers Still Want Gas Guzzlers: GM Executive

Agence France Presse August 6, 2009.

"It remains a fact that the American public buys big, high consumption cars," GM Vice Chairman Bob Lutz said this week, adding it's "wrong to hope that Americans will massively rush to economical vehicles."

The Hummer: America's Favorite Wasteful Toy Has Moved to the Land of Mao

Jim Hightower, AlterNet. June 12, 2009.

China now owns one of the West's most decadent consumer products.

Fiat Closes Chrysler Deal; New Management Team Named

Poornima Gupta and Gilles Castonguay, Reuters June 10, 2009.

DETROIT/MILAN (Reuters) - Fiat SpA closed its acquisition of Chrysler's strongest assets on Wednesday, a key step in the Italian carmaker's ambitious plan to create a global player to ride out the worldwide auto sales downturn.

Obama's Weird Idea of Auto Industry Rescue: Use Our Money to Build Car Factories Abroad

William Greider, The Nation. May 11, 2009.

Can someone explain how outsourcing the auto industry is in our national interest?

White House Struggles to Contrast Auto, Wall Street Bailouts

Sam Stein, Huffington Post AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. March 30, 2009.

When asked to explain the disparity the Obama administration press secretary seemed to struggle for words.

Mexican Gov't Aiding Ailing U.S. Automakers

Staff, New America Media. February 13, 2009.

Mexican officials are offering financial assistance to foreign-owned companies with plants in Mexico.

Bob Corker's 'Screw the Seniors' Plan

Emptywheel, Firedoglake AlterNet: PEEK. December 28, 2008.

Bob Corker's "plan" to "fix" the auto industry is not so much a plan to fix anything, but a plan to screw retirees.

Don't Make Auto Workers Pay the Tab for Corporate Greed

Mary Shaw, AlterNet. December 23, 2008.

Labor is used to making concessions -- the executives are not. And look where that got us.

Autoworkers Forced to Take Concessions in Industry Bailout

Tiffany Ten Eyck, Labor Notes. December 20, 2008.

Yet another example of the right-wing agenda to do away with labor rights.

Bail Out the Auto Industry? Why Not Take Over Their Health Care Instead?

RJ Eskow, Huffington Post. December 16, 2008.

If taxpayers are going to foot the bill, why not use our money to leverage some real change?

Obama's Health Care Reform Plan Is Based on the Clintons' Failed 1990s Model

Marie Cocco, Washington Post Writers Group. December 4, 2008.

Look only to the Detroit automakers' current economic straits to understand why.

Bailout or Bust: How to Save the Big Three From Themselves

Titus Levi, Truthdig. November 21, 2008.

Letting Detroit's ailing auto makers fall makes economic sense, but can we afford the social costs?

It Is Going to Be a Wal-Mart Christmas

Marie Cocco, Washington Post Writers Group. November 19, 2008.

Wal-Mart is the only store where hard-squeezed consumers can afford anything, and so it keeps posting big profits amid the retail bloodbath.

Bush Wants to Play 'Let's Make a Deal' With Obama

Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: PEEK. November 11, 2008.

But will it work?

Does Greed Fuel Stupidity in Corporate America?

Sam Pizzigati, Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality. July 10, 2008.

It's good to reward the best and the brightest, but when those rewards are too great they become incentives for bad, and dumb, behavior.

EPA Spews Auto Industry Propaganda

Frank O'Donnell, TomPaine.com. January 3, 2008.

The EPA has lied about a critical decision that will delay global warming progress.