Daniel Howes
The Detroit News
Detroit, MI, United States
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Virginia governor scraps Ford's bid for EV battery plant with Chinese partner
Gov. Glenn Youngkin rejected the project in December, a decision that potentially cost one of the poorest parts of Virginia at least 2,500 jobs. → Read More
Feds clear General Motors in UAW corruption probe
GM received notification that the company was not a criminal target of the corruption probe → Read More
GM, Ford studying how to make ventilators to fight COVID-19
Echoing the Arsenal of Democracy, automakers studying production of medical equipment like ventilators as nation battles the coronavirus pandemic → Read More
Howes: Charges against ex-UAW boss inch union closer to federal oversight
The charges mark a stunning fall for a cornerstone of the modern American auto industry — and likely bring the union closer to a federal takeover → Read More
Former UAW President Gary Jones charged in embezzlement scheme
A guilty plea would secure the conviction of the highest-ranking UAW official → Read More
Howes: Continuing trustee antics at the Big Three universities scream "Don't come here!"
How screwed up is the governance of Wayne State University? So much so that Governor Gretchen Whitmer, Attorney General Dana Nessel, and bi-partisan → Read More
Howes: Tiny Tesla's soaring value highlights chronic Detroit weakness
Tesla's market value topped $100 billion on same day it reached settlement to sell cars in Michigan, a double whammy for Detroit's legacy automakers → Read More
Howes: The UAW's day of reckoning is coming
The birthplace of the modern American labor movement is facing a reckoning. Thank a growing cadre of United Auto Workers leaders, including two of the past → Read More
Howes: UAW's third reform push in three years requires real change
There's more union can do, beyond nationwide reforms that read like specific answers to allegations surfaced in federal court papers in recent years → Read More
Howes: Federal corruption probe, mistrust fuel UAW-GM strike
Ten years after emerging from bankruptcy that drove record North American profits, GM and the UAW are set to clash over different visions for future → Read More
Howes: UAW leadership's credibility evaporating with new charges
With the latest revelations, and more to come, UAW-GM members could be forgiven if more than a few of them would prefer to strike their leadership → Read More
UAW demands + prosperity + GM cost-cutting = strike?
DETROIT — Bargainers for the United Auto Workers and General Motors Co. are bearing down on a deadline of 11:59 p.m. Saturday, and the stakes in this → Read More
Howes: America's "clean union" no more
The UAW once prided itself on being America’s “clean union.” The latest evidence and eight federal convictions so far suggest that moniker no longer may be → Read More
Howes: For region reinventing itself, Lordstown is a familiar story
They’re waiting for the end at Lordstown , the giant auto plant General Motors says it no longer needs. Local 1112 President Dave Green comes in every day. → Read More
Howes: Good times promise tough bargaining for UAW, automakers
Change is coming faster than four-year contract terms can manage, an ominous sign for both automakers and union members craving stability, certainty → Read More
Iacocca towered among Detroit auto giants
DETROIT — In an auto industry accustomed to giants, Lee Iacocca stood taller than them all.He defined the long arc of innovation and ignominy culmina → Read More
Howes: Automakers face 'profit desert' as EVs, self-driving vehicles ramp
The auto industry’s profit party is winding down, imperiling jobs, plants and products in a scramble to embrace electrified and self-driving vehicles → Read More
Fiat Chrysler negotiates with feds to resolve corruption probe
Negotiations could end with Fiat Chrysler being subject to government oversight and paying less than $50 million to emerge from a bribery scandal. → Read More
Howes: Detroit autos face deep uncertainty in Trump's Washington
Policy flux on tariffs, trade, emissions standards and self-driving vehicle legislation conjures an F-word not much used recently in Detroit: fragile. → Read More
Howes: Auto investments herald arrival of UAW bargaining time
In quadrennial rite of economics, politics and theater, automakers use product decisions as prelude to national contract talks with the UAW → Read More