From Bloomberg reporters Gabrielle Coppola and Heejin Kim:
The threat to jobs caused by the electric vehicle transition isn’t just a hot-button issue in the US, where a presidential election campaign is in full swing.
In Japan, the heads of Toyota Motor, the country’s largest employer with close to 381,000 staff, are grappling with how the carmaker’s technological transformation will impact not only its workers but the nation’s vast auto supply chain and the thousands of jobs it supports.
In South Korea, Hyundai Motor and Kia’s moves toward electrification are provoking similar anxieties in that country’s highly active and organized labor movement.
Hyperdrive sat down in Seoul last week with officials from the Korean Metal Workers’ Union, which represents roughly 180,000 auto workers, including about 70,000 at Hyundai and Kia, the country’s two dominant manufacturers. The conflict has clear echoes of the contentious six-week strike between the United Auto Workers union and the Detroit Three carmakers last fall. Read the full story [here](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-07-01/how-hyundai-s-union-is-navigating-job-losses-in-the-ev-transition).
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From Bloomberg reporters Gabrielle Coppola and Heejin Kim:
The threat to jobs caused by the electric vehicle transition isn’t just a hot-button issue in the US, where a presidential election campaign is in full swing.
In Japan, the heads of Toyota Motor, the country’s largest employer with close to 381,000 staff, are grappling with how the carmaker’s technological transformation will impact not only its workers but the nation’s vast auto supply chain and the thousands of jobs it supports.
In South Korea, Hyundai Motor and Kia’s moves toward electrification are provoking similar anxieties in that country’s highly active and organized labor movement.
Hyperdrive sat down in Seoul last week with officials from the Korean Metal Workers’ Union, which represents roughly 180,000 auto workers, including about 70,000 at Hyundai and Kia, the country’s two dominant manufacturers. The conflict has clear echoes of the contentious six-week strike between the United Auto Workers union and the Detroit Three carmakers last fall. Read the full story [here](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-07-01/how-hyundai-s-union-is-navigating-job-losses-in-the-ev-transition).
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This seems to be a general objection to automation reducing jobs.
One mega factory in China employ 10000 people at most.