Detroit Manufacturing Systems and the new face of auto parts production - World Socialist Web Site
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“It’s like organized crime”
Detroit Manufacturing Systems and the new face of auto parts production
By Nick Rodriguez
17 November 2017
Behind the remaining “legacy workers” at the Big Three assembly and stamping plants stand the more recently hired second tier, or “in progression” workers, followed by increasing numbers of temporary part-time workers and a vast army of workers at the auto parts plants.
Parts workers employed by hundreds of different so-called OEMs, or Original Equipment Manufacturers, produce, assemble and sequence the bulk of the components that feed the assembly plants of the major automakers. Some pay dues to the United Auto Workers (UAW), while many others are not unionized.