Posted on 05/02/2024 1:03:05 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Multinational automaker Stellantis is making a big hiring push for low-wage engineers in Brazil, India, Mexico, and Morocco after laying off 400 Americans in its engineering, software, and technology departments in March.
On March 22, Stellantis executives announced that 400 salaried engineering and software employees in Auburn Hills, Michigan, would be laid off to cut costs. An industry insider told Automotive News that Stellantis is making gradual layoffs in the United States to avoid WARN Act disclosures.
Following layoffs of its American employees, Stellantis executives are looking to hire engineers for a fraction of the cost by hiring in Brazil, India, Mexico, and Morocco. Whereas Stellantis must pay American engineers $150,000 to $200,000 salaries, the automaker can pay engineers in low-wage countries just $53,000 a year.
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“can’t find qualified Americans to fill the jobs”
That’s because one of the “qualifications” is to work dirt-cheap.
well, the USA will be a third world country country soon enough with wages to match, so the jobs will flow back. /S
I hear the same kind of story from a buddy in tech.
I’ve worked with engineers like that. They have no imagination or creative ability at all. If it’s not in some book, it can’t be done.
“We over-laidoffed?”
Fiat, Dodge, what else?
Well, that can’t hurt their quality much, since they’re at the bottom now.
However, if Smith were around today after the invention of central heat and A/C, and he saw that the same work can be done anywhere in Earth, and that the only discriminators were lower wages and laxer labor and environmental regulations, then I believe he would have had another think about his theory.
I could have used a union when I worked at Nothern Telecom. The mid level management was terrible.
” Remember when we saw all our manufacturing jobs leave to China? The talking heads said “no worries we just need to re-educate and get workers more tech savvy for design and maintenance jobs”.
They sold white collar workers on outsourcing based on this lie.
Fact is, it is easier to outsource a white collar design job than it is to pick up a factory and move iot.
Especially when the white collar employees are already working remote part of the time.
In some ways it serves them right for thinking about the stock options and cheap imported crap they would be able to buy.
But we all lose, and have been for decades.
Didn’t the UAW just get Stellantis workers a new contract in an inflationary economy? How did that work out for them?
Still hate them. IIRC they caused much more trouble than they solved.
I was an Engineer engineering manager for many years. I had the misfortune to hire some of these cheaper foreign engineers (these were from India). Their educational vitae were excellent, grades good all the right stuff. The problem is that the learning was all rote. No imagination, or entrepreneurial drive or innovation behind it. They mostly only did enough to get by while they schemed to get all the company benefits they could, use up as much overhead time they could and never really deliver on what they promised. Their main goal was to get US Citizenship, nothing else above that.
I learned something very clear through this. The American engineer usually looks for the simplest and quickest way to accomplish the goals to fit the requirement parameters, and often times their product output is elegant in a way.
This company is going to find out the hard way, I think.
Their products are already known to be crap.
they will just get more crappy.
(this likely has more to do with sourcing crappy parts than the people who design them but what happens when crappy people design crappy parts?)
Stellantis is Fiat. No committment to the US. But then Ford and GM don’t have any either.
my 16 year old is trying to decide what field he wants to get into. I didn’t suggest anything other than “make sure it’s a job that has to be done here (trades, plumber, electrician, road builder that sort of thing) and not likely to be taken over by an illegal or a robot...”
he thought about it and said “dad, this seems to make the most sense... Robotics and robotic repair”
not sure where he got his smarts from. but I’ll take it.
as a mechanic I can confirm..
they are crap.
The only thing keeping Ram alive is the contract with Cummins.
They only want CHEAP and obedient labor. "Efficiency and cost effectiveness" are buzzwords to justify lowering the salaries.
The executives are strip-mining these companies and pocketing their piece off the top. Product quality and organizational performance invariably deteriorate until the companies are hollow shells and crash into dust. But by then the executives are long gone into other jobs, or a safe retirement.
No, we cannot have a first-world technology economy based on third-world labor and wages. Complex systems break down and cannot be restarted. The nice things go away.
Stellantis sounds like the name of a medication - “Ask your doctor or pharmacist if Stellantis is right for you.”
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