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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Boeing?
Globohomo Inc proceeds apace
Automatons, unless he was making a joke of the spelling
There are indeed some very fine engineers in foreign countries. A few countries have earned excellent reputations for their record of technological and scientific achievements (Germany, Japan, Israel, some good engineers also in UK, Russia, both Chinas, and more...)
However, hiring engineers in some of the countries this post-Chrysler Corporation is doing it......does NOT give me much confidence in their products. With the very greatest of respect, some of these countries just haven’t had a tradition or history of technological endeavors.
Add to that, their ridiculous decision a couple of days ago to go “all in” on EV’s. Amazing.
At least they had the common sense to pick a new name instead of Chrysler.
Tell that to a libertarian.
Must? Who's forcing them?
Absolutely. Some college engineering programs have mandatory summer COOPS. The Maritime College in Maine has a mandatory 3 month cadet shipping requirement. The deck and engineering students are requried to serve on US flagged merchant ship and submit a detailed report upon completion.
union is for blue collar works... white collar need not apply.
man.. half of our tech dept is in india.
to be fair i should be allowed to ‘outsource’ my IT job to another person while i collect the full paycheck.
Are these UAW workers that have been laid off? VW workers in Tennessee just voted in the Union. Don’t they know VW already builds cars in Mexico?
I hate to see US jobs leave the country, but when cars can be built cheaper....
You go on strike to combat being laid off? Doesn’t compute.
I just guessed at the spelling. “I cant even spel enginner and now I our one.”
Stellantis makes Chrysler, Jeep, Dodge, and Ram. All four are among the lowest rated vehicles for reliability.
That’s right. Except America does not realize what it’s in for!
“Stellantis makes Chrysler, Jeep, Dodge, and Ram. All four are among the lowest rated vehicles for reliability. “
That’s not what the latest JD Power shows.
For Stellantis brands to finally get to some sort of quality parity, and first thing they do is outsource their engineering.. Brilliant !
https://www.jdpower.com/business/press-releases/2023-us-initial-quality-study-iqs
Could it be that Stellantis figured that in the future, with DEI in force, new American engineers would still cost 150K-200K, but all too many would be no better than the foreign ones costing only 53K?
“The only thing keeping Ram alive is the contract with Cummins.”
Yep, they are a great engine wrapped in a POS truck.
So Dodge quality is going to get even worse? Hard to believe that is possible, but if it is this move will certainly accomplish it.
Walter P. Chrysler must be spinning in his grave seeing what the company that he founded has turned into! Chrysler was quite the innovative company engineering wise in their heyday. The high end Chrysler’s (except the Airflow) built in the 1930’s were some of the most beautiful cars ever to stand on four wheels.
Yep, the “Eurocrapitization” of the formerly “known for engineering” MOPAR is sad!
I stick with Toyota/Lexus now.
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