CAR Quarterly Breakfast Briefing

The Future of Automotive Human Resources in the United States

The Center for Automotive Research (CAR) is sponsoring a series of breakfast briefings to provide timely insight and research on critical issues facing the North American and international automotive industries. Join us for a seminar on the competitive meaning of the 2007 UAW-Big Three labor agreements, including an industry consensus forecast of human resource hiring and skill needs in the automotive industry through 2016.

The 2007 labor agreements are, by all accounts, transformational. These contracts put an end to all future legacy cost liabilities through the UAW-managed Voluntary Employee Benefit Association and a second tier of wage and benefits for all new hires. Under the new agreements, the Big Three have the opportunity to close the labor cost gap between the domestic and international automakers, and this (together with the mass exodus of the baby boomer generation) means there will be thousands of new autoworkers hired in the next 8 years.

This seminar will focus on the following key questions: What do these labor agreements mean for the domestic automakers, their competitors and their suppliers? When and where will new autoworker hires take place? What skills will these workers need to have? And what can employers and educators do now to ensure the industry’s future human resource needs are met?

The forecast that will be presented covers the domestic and international automakers, as well as suppliers, and includes a breakdown by engineering, technical, skilled trades and production occupations. Separate forecasts will be presented for the US as a whole and for Michigan. This research was made possible by support from the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation and the US Department of Labor, and updates and expands CAR’s 1995 report, “Driving America’s Renaissance: Human Resource Issues in Michigan’s Automotive Industry.” 

Speakers:

Dr. Sean McAlinden, Chief Economist and Vice President of Research, Center for Automotive Research

Kristin Dziczek, Senior Project Manager, Economics and Business Group, Center for Automotive Research

We hope that you can join us!

WHEN
Tuesday, February 19, 2008

7:30 - 10:00 a.m.

WHERE
Ann Arbor Marriott Ypsilanti at Eagle Crest

Price: $95.00

Use this link to register!

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