Japanese Automobile Corporations Are Better? Toyota’s Race to the Bottom

by Barbara Briggs, Special to CorpWatch 
September 16th, 2008
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15182
 Beneath Toyota’s buffed shine lies a dark undercoat. The Toyota Corporation enjoys a fine reputation for well-built cars, environmental innovation, flexible production lines and effective management practices. But in its quest for ever-increasing efficiency, profitability and growth, the world’s largest auto manufacturer has sparked a race to the bottom that, [...]

GM Must Re-Make the Mass Transit System it Murdered

by Harvey Wasserman
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2008/11/16-6
 
Bail out General Motors?  The people who murdered our mass transit system?
First let them remake what they destroyed.
GM responded to the 1970s gas crisis by handing over the American market to energy-efficient Toyota and Honda.
GM met the rise of the hybrids with “light trucks.”
GM built a small electric car, leased a pilot fleet [...]

Official ACLUSA Statement: What Is Good for General Motors Is Not What’s Good for the Country

There was a time when Charles Wilson, the CEO of GM and soon to be Secretary of Defense for President Eisenhower, stated, “What is good for the country is good for General Motors, and what’s good for General Motors is good for the country.” Oh how times have changed. Ravaging in debt, bleeding cash, and [...]