EUROPEAN AND NORTH AMERICA ADMINISTRATIONS GRAPPLE WITH LABOR SUPPLY IMPACT OF SWITCH TO EVS
January 22nd, 2024
Governments worldwide are thinking hard about cushioning impacts from the shift to EVs on auto companies, their suppliers and workers, avoiding political and industrial relations blowbacks from related job losses, plant closures and, sometimes, labour shortages.
In Europe, American and locally-owned auto companies have been, with labor unions, pressing European Union (EU) lawmakers for more funding and specialist programs to ease the ICE to BEV switch in automaking regions. These calls will intensify as the bloc’s 2035 zero carbon deadline nears, notably to ...
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