What car company employs the most U.S. workers?
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Among these three, Toyota employs the most employees approximately 320,808. Unfortunately I don't know how many US citizens are employed there :(
http://www2.toyota.co.jp/en/about_toyota/overview/index.html
The second place goes to Ford Motor Company with 213,000 employees. According to its company profile, there are 87,700 employees in U.S.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford
Third place goes to Honda with a employees number of 167,231.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda
Also I came to know from Wikipedia that General Motors employs about 68500 US employees. :-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors
Another leading Car Producer Chrysler (US producer) also has managed to employ 58,000 employees. As this company is situated in US, I think most of the employees should be US citizens.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysler
I cannot find any more specific details on how many US citizens are employed in this companies. However I believe Toyota and Ford employs most US citizens.
Hope this Helps !
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Also note that the more Americans buy from the Japanese-owned companies the more people they hire in the USA and the more factories they open.
Also, all the brands use parts from around the world these days. My Jeep has an Italian engine and Japanese electronics.
It makes sense to buy the best car with the best service. That provides a level and logical field for the various companies to compete in.
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"again all I see is wealth leaving this country and quality of jobs declining, its not just the auto industry but it is also other industries too, with the auto industry though it represents a big chunk of our economy. "
Yes, I agree completely.
I think part of the answer is:
* (as a nation) put more investment in education.
* make some sensible reforms to union regulations
* car companies need to invest in new technology research
* car companies need to stop building so many SUVs! (I think they got that point finally)
"when boeing sold planes to Japan they demanded a certain amount of work for Japanese companies and we should do the same."
There is a good book to read called Tokyo Underworld.
Among other things, it lays out how the crazy protectionist system between America and Japan came to be.
It's not a pretty picture overall, but hopefully changes are underway to correct the problem. And from what I have read, Toyota more than anyone would like to see US auto companies become healthy again. Because if they are not, then Toyota knows they will fail as well.
Ive heard that about Toyota, it sounds kind of supsticious but the chinese and Indians are coming on strong so it may be that the U.S. and Japan will be fighting a whole new trade battle and there might be a huge push to ship a lot of auto manufacturing to lower wage countries with minimal benefits.
It was kind of a rant. hence the lack of paragraph breaks.
GM is the largest employer of auto workers what has happened though is the domestic content has slipped from being over 90% to a little over 70%.
I am not saying the U. S. companies did not make mistakes, GM should have treated the EV1 like the Corvette or other cars, they generate business, it does not neccessarily mean they are money makers.
the rules are not the same for the Japanese, for one they dont have to worry about crazed stock holders wanting ever increasing returns every quarter. 2 they have a different healthcare system whereas in this country you are basically on your own unless you have union that fights for you. 3. Unfortunately during the fight crazy ideas often get passed suchas getting paid not to work. and being able to retire and then work somewhere else and draw a pension from more than one company.
again all I see is wealth leaving this country and quality of jobs declining, its not just the auto industry but it is also other industries too, with the auto industry though it represents a big chunk of our economy. when boeing sold planes to Japan they demanded a certain amount of work for Japanese companies and we should do the same.
Hi @defolts,
You raise some interesting ideas.
I don't have the time to research right now, otherwise I would give my own complete answer.
But going from my past experience I have a few points to bring up.
You mention that Japanese car manufacturers bring their own suppliers.
I know first hand that yes, Japanese car companies use many Japanese suppliers.
And I also know that many of those suppliers operate from the United States.
Case in point, a few years back my wife worked for Keihin Aircon North America in Muncie, Indiana.
Keihin assembles air conditioning units for Honda passenger cars. When most of the American companies skipped the country for Mexican plants, Keihin was overwhelmed with applications from Muncie citizens. The only Japanese employees were the upper management.
The reason that American auto companies were skipping town and Japanese companies were coming in comes down to unions and incentives.
The Japanese companies were enticed to come to Indiana by reduced leases and other incentives. And the Japanese companies remained union free (at least the ones I had experience with). This is what I believe led most of the domestic manufacturing to head to Mexico and elsewhere, for cheaper labor.
So at least around 7 or 8 years ago, I would guess that Japanese companies employed more Americans in America than US car companies. I couldn't tell you today.
But I can tell you it's not all cut and dry. Japanese companies are not invading and stealing our jobs and US companies are not hapless victims of the invasion. Another case in point is that the entire reason Toyota introduced the Prius was not philontropic. It was because GM introduced the EV1 and Toyota wanted to compete. Then GM killed the EV1 (after lobbying to kill the bill that made them introduce it in the first place) and Toyota reaped the benefits.
I don't mean to imply for an instant that Japanese companies in the US are "better" in any way. To me, the Japanese see (or saw) the US manufacturing market much like America sees Mexico: cheaper labor. Why? Because US politicians were dangling incentives in front of them to encourage investment.
And I'm not sure what you are implying at the end about Japanese quality, but I have not had a similar experience. I have owned quite a few cars from America, Germany and Japan. They all have their quirks, but Toyota engines breaking down is not a common happening (the bodies rusting through to the frame is much more common. And my German car's electrical systems going haywire was their Achilles' heel)
OK, that's about all I have in my gas tank for tonight.
Though one more request.
It would be a bit easier on the eyes if you added a few paragraph breaks to your answers.
it is 30 some thousand U.S. employees for Toyota.I am getting the Toyota figures from their ads and taking their word that they are honest about. before the recent slow down it was about 32,000 employees, word is they want out of Nummi, so the figure could drop.