| Looking for career in the automotive | | | | bankruptcy filing and GM negotiated down |
| sector? You are not alone. This week | | | | healthcare costs and benefits as well as |
| over 600 car dealerships, 5 major | | | | made under funded pension adjustments |
| automakers and many OEM suppliers are | | | | with UAW. Ford Motor Co just reported a |
| participating in ACW Automotive Career | | | | third-quarter loss in the neighborhood |
| Week, its here. Eleven State Governors | | | | of around $280 million citing poor sales |
| have issued important proclamations. | | | | of gas-guzzling SUV and a three percent |
| Automotive Career Week is partly | | | | encroachment of market share by the |
| sponsored by NADA North American Dealer | | | | leading Japanese Automakers.Meanwhile |
| Association of auto dealerships and it | | | | Japanese Automakers are quite pleased |
| starts on Monday, October 24 and runs | | | | and view all these recent changes in the |
| through the entire Business Week.There | | | | Auto Industry as a big bonus to their |
| are participating dealers involved in | | | | future market exploits with Hybrids and |
| forty-nine states and Washington D.C., | | | | fuel-efficient cars.What seems to be |
| right now Puerto Rico is too flooded. | | | | happening is a paradigm shift in |
| The eleven main states where the State | | | | consumer buying behavior due to higher |
| Governments have a made decrees are in | | | | gas prices at the pump, as well as a |
| California, Delaware, Georgia, Kentucky, | | | | return of the Deming Years strategy for |
| Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New | | | | the Japanese Automakers, perhaps the |
| Jersey, New York, Vermont and West | | | | Automotive Career Week may re-ignite |
| Virginia. Students are invited to learn | | | | some sales in the sluggish sector to |
| first hand how auto dealerships work and | | | | stave off the massive lay-offs already |
| how the auto retailing businesses | | | | announced or soak up some of those Auto |
| operate. dealers are hosting career days | | | | Worker jobs on the dealer side of the |
| in conjunction with the event and | | | | business, because the American |
| handing out a career kit year-round. | | | | Automakers are moving towards robotics |
| This only a few days after the Ford | | | | and will have to stay their to compete |
| Motor Company has announced | | | | in the future. Think on all this and |
| "significant" U.S. auto manufacturing | | | | check out the Automotive Career Week |
| plant closings and layoffs in January of | | | | festivities and some free food at your |
| 2007, which another hit to nation's | | | | local participating dealership.Lance |
| autoworkers, as Delphi announced a | | | | Winslow - Online Think Tank forum board. |