Good morning! It’s Tuesday, March 19, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know. The 2024 Toyota Yaris GR Sport: America Is Missing Out 1st Gear: “Emotional Sensitivity” Slows Bentley Sales Bentley … Read more
Good morning! It’s Thursday, February 8, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know. Volkswagen’s CEO Is Stepping Down 1st Gear: Tesla Is Hurting In Korea Tesla managed to sell just one … Read more
Automotive workers in the American south are on the verge of ushering in a new era of unionized solidarity. Just weeks after workers in a Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Mercedes-Benz facility began campaigning to unionize, similar efforts are taking off at Hyundai’s plant just two hours away in Montgomery. Workers in the plant have been given large … Read more
Good morning! It’s Wednesday, January 17, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know. The Chrysler 300C Ends Production 1st Gear: A Major Drought Is Causing Traffic Jams In The Panama Canal … Read more
Photo: Lucid Motors Lucid makes an absolutely fantastic electric car, and later this year, it plans to add an electric SUV to its lineup. Still, it’s struggled financially and has been hemorrhaging cash. Money isn’t the only problem Lucid is dealing with, though, as the National Labor Relations Board has accused the electric automaker of … Read more
Good morning! It’s Friday, November 17, 2023, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know. Valtteri Bottas Gets Excited About The Las Vegas Grand Prix | Jalopnik Chats 1st Gear: Automotive Suppliers Want … Read more
United Auto Workers union members at Stellantis and Ford have now joined General Motors workers in ratifying the labor agreement between the union and the Big Three automakers this week. The vote marks the end of the labor dispute between the two parties that resulted in a six-week-long strike earlier this year. Valtteri Bottas Gets Excited About … Read more
Photo: Mark Renders / Stringer (Getty Images) Hyundai plans to give non-union workers in its Alabama factory a 25-percent raise by 2028, Reuters reports. This news comes two weeks after the United Auto Workers union won a new contract with the Big Three, ending a strike that lasted more than a month. Here’s A Cheap … Read more
The United Auto Workers union wants to take the momentum it gained from its strike against the Big Three automakers and start unionization campaigns at other automakers like Toyota and Tesla that use non-union U.S. factories, according to Reuters. 2023 Range Rover Sport | Quick Drive In the past, the union has attempted to organize … Read more
Friends, the weekend is finally here. It’s September 1, 2023, and this is The Morning Shift — your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, all in one convenient place. Here are all the important stories you need to know today. 1st Gear: United Auto Workers File Unfair Labor Practice Charges … Read more