How has making cars for big auto companies changed, in pay, labor, everyday life and technology? We hear from a former autoworker and a current one. For six days, autoworkers at three plants have been ...

Vehicle-manufacturing jobs grind down workers’ bodies. Is it time for a 32-hour week? Line workers work on the chassis of full-size General Motors pickup trucks at the Flint Assembly plant on June 12, ...

Seven weeks of construction, 38,000 square metres of emptied space, 100 heavy machinery units (robots and assistance equipment), and 400 redeployed workstations were ...

Work done by General Motors and NASA has led to the creation of robotic, grip- strengthening gloves that the space agency says could help both astronauts and assembly-line workers on the job. The ...

Tesla has a plan to fend off cheaper competition from China with a $25,000 electric car. But first it has to overhaul a 100-year-old manufacturing process pioneered by Henry Ford. The company is ...

India’s passenger vehicle manufacturer Maruti Suzuki has commissioned another assembly line at its Manesar facility in northern India. According to Maruti, the new line at the firm’s largest plant ...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk often refers to the automobile factory as "the machine that builds the machine," but there are plenty of human workers involved in even the most highly automated plants. They ...

FREMONT, Calif. — When Phil Verzola got home from work at 2 a.m., he woke up his wife to say his auto assembly line was about to shut down because of the West Coast port lockout. "Honey, we need to ...

A coin honoring Henry Ford’s innovative automotive assembly line will be released by the U.S. Mint this spring. The $1 American Innovation gold coin features the Statue of Liberty on the face and ...