What is PALE?

The Program for Automotive Labor and Education is a unique partnership of industry, labor, education, training, workforce development and government that is dedicated to sustaining and improving the quality of the automotive workforce in North America’s automotive manufacturing and engineering center. Read more…

Automotive Human Resource Issues in the News

General Motors announces 1,600 layoffs at three plantsDavid Shepardson, GM hourly layoffs hit two Michigan plants, October 17, 2008 Read article

Slumping sales and globalization are causing white-collar automotive jobs at American carmakers and suppliers to disappear by the thousands. David Barkholz and Robert Sherefkin, Salaried Automotive Industry Workers Face the Ax, September 3, 2008 Read article

Mike Rush, president of the Tri-County Economics Club, says that the automotive industry’s ''restructuring'' indicates the economic landscape is undergoing a transition, and the situation eventually will settle into a turnaround.Automotive restructuring a transition to better times, some say, August 22, 2008 Read article

a few current members: Oakland Community College Toyota Motor North America, Inc. Mott Community College Continental AG Global Engine Manufacturing Alliance Ford Motor Company Oakland University Wayne State University Kristin Dziczek American Society of Body Engineers AFL-CIO/United Labor Agency and more