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☆ The UAW Tax and the Car Safety Revolution
  + stars: | 2023-09-28 | by ( ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Striking members of the United Auto Workers in Belleville, Mich., Sept. 26. Photo: EVELYN HOCKSTEIN/REUTERSClifford Winston’s op-ed “UAW Strike May Hasten Detroit’s Decline” (Sept. 22) says little about the United Auto Workers’ role in shrinking the domestic auto industry by half over the past 40 years. My employer, Ford, employed around 400,000 in its heyday. The loss of workforce and closing of plants were due to the UAW’s contract agreements and restrictive work rules, agreed to by the company under duress. These helped make Detroit uncompetitive.
Persons: EVELYN HOCKSTEIN, Clifford Winston’s, Ford Organizations: United Auto Workers, “ UAW, Ford, Detroit Locations: Belleville, Mich
☆ A New Tax to Fix U.S. Autos? What Chutzpah
  + stars: | 2023-09-26 | by ( ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
A ‘UAW On Strike’ sign held on a picket line in Burton, Mich., Sept. 25. Photo: Emily Elconin/Bloomberg NewsClifford Winston’s op-ed “UAW Strike May Hasten Detroit’s Decline” (op-ed, Sept. 22) is further evidence that energy-transition advocates want to change your behavior. He proffers “an efficient vehicle-miles-traveled tax,” wherein the government could “reduce driving, especially during peak periods,” as a more efficient means to cut emissions. This would require the government to track vehicles and tax their owners for driving at the wrong time or place and for fueling or charging your soon-to-be-mandated EV at the wrong time.
Persons: Emily Elconin, Clifford Winston’s Organizations: UAW, Bloomberg, “ UAW Locations: Burton, Mich
☆ This Little-Noticed Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act Provision Could Revolutionize Car Travel - The New York Times
  + stars: | 2023-07-06 | by ( Clifford Winston | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +3 min
The congestion charge would spread traffic throughout the day, reducing public pressure to build expensive lanes or roads to expand peak-period capacity. And the emissions charge would encourage travelers to use electric vehicles, accelerating the transition to a clean energy economy without large subsidies. Travelers and shippers will almost certainly eventually use autonomous electric vehicles that operate efficiently and safely without a driver to reach their destinations. fees would generate funding to upgrade the highway infrastructure, thus reducing congestion and pavement damage that impede autonomous vehicle operations, and accelerate demand for autonomous electric vehicles. fee might be resurrected after the elections, or it might be done in future decades to help upgrade the infrastructure to facilitate autonomous vehicles operation.
Organizations: Travelers, Department of Transportation
☆ Reasons Plane Travel, Airline Customer Service, Airports Are so Terrible
  + stars: | 2023-02-20 | by ( Bartie Scott | Juliana Kaplan | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +15 min
It's almost impossible to imagine a time when air travel was pleasant, much less enjoyable. Lost baggage, overbooked flights, outdated equipment, hidden fees, and disorganized staffing have fliers at their wits' end; consumer complaints about airline service have risen by 300% from pre-pandemic levels. Many of these measures had been put in place to improve safety following some rattling accidents in the early days of commercial air travel. So in 1978, at the urging of the economist and "inflation czar" Alfred Kahn, President Jimmy Carter enacted the Airline Deregulation Act. He added that "airline service, by any standard, has become unacceptable."
☆ Southwest explains its meltdown to Congress
  + stars: | 2023-02-09 | by ( Gregory Wallace | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +4 min
Washington CNN —Congress is set to receive new evidence Thursday of internal chaos at Southwest Airlines over the Christmas holiday meltdown. The Senate Commerce committee is set to question Southwest executive Andrew Watterson, alongside Southwest pilot union president Casey Murray, Sharon Pinkerton of the Airlines for America trade group, Paul Hudson of Flyers’ Rights, and economist Clifford Winston of The Brookings Institution. It’s a mess down here.”A photograph of the message, which shows the extent of the airline’s breakdown, is included in testimony the Southwest Airlines Pilots Association union, SWAPA, plans to present at the hearing. Southwest CEO Bob Jordan apologized and the airline offered reimbursements for passengers’ costs, along with bonus points. The union criticized the airline for giving executives stock options in the wake of the meltdown while employees lost profit sharing pay because of the airline’s financial hit due to the meltdown.
☆ Southwest plans to tell Senate it's confident in its schedule after holiday meltdown
  + stars: | 2023-02-08 | by ( Leslie Josephs | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +2 min
Southwest Airlines plans to apologize before a Senate panel on Thursday over the carrier's December meltdown that stranded hundreds of thousands of travelers around Christmas. "In hindsight, we did not have enough winter operational resilience," Chief Operating Officer Andrew Watterson said in written testimony, which was reviewed by CNBC, ahead of Senate Commerce Committee hearing. The debacle made for an $800 million pretax hit and drove the carrier to a net loss last quarter. Watterson plans to tell the committee that the carrier has made short-term improvements to communicate more easily with crews when things go wrong and has improved tools that keep track of the operation's stability. With those mitigation tools, "we are confident in our flight network and the schedules we have published for sale," Watterson plans to say, according to the testimony.
☆ Southwest pilots detail the Christmas meltdown chaos
  + stars: | 2023-02-08 | by ( Gregory Wallace | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +4 min
CNN —Congress is set to receive new evidence Thursday of internal chaos at Southwest Airlines over the Christmas holiday meltdown. It’s a mess down here.”A photograph of the message, which shows the extent of the airline’s breakdown, is included in testimony the Southwest Airlines Pilots Association union, SWAPA, plans to present at a Senate Commerce committee hearing. “No updates here,” another cockpit computer message to pilots read. Southwest CEO Bob Jordan apologized and the airline offered reimbursements for passengers’ costs, along with bonus points. The union criticized the airline for giving executives stock options in the wake of the meltdown while employees lost profit sharing pay because of the airline’s financial hit due to the meltdown.
☆ Southwest faces Senate hearing next week following holiday meltdown
  + stars: | 2023-02-03 | by ( Leslie Josephs | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +2 min
John and Lori Ingoldsby, who drove to Denver after the first leg of their flight on Southwest Airlines was canceled, wait for a flight to finish their trip at Denver International Airport on December 28, 2022 in Denver, Colorado. Southwest Airlines ' chief operating officer, Andrew Watterson, will face questions from a Senate panel next Thursday about the carrier's holiday meltdown that stranded hundreds of thousands of travelers. Southwest said the hearing date overlapped with "a previous commitment" for CEO Bob Jordan. The incident has drawn increased scrutiny from Washington and capped a year of on-and-off disruptions in air travel, due to bad weather, staffing and technology issues. Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., the committee chair, had previously said she planned to hold a hearing on flight disruptions following Southwest's holiday travel chaos.
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