The threat to jobs from the transition to electric cars is not only a hot topic in the US, where the presidential election campaign is in full swing.
In Japan, executives at Toyota, the country’s largest employer with nearly 381,000 workers, are grappling with what impact the automaker’s technological transformation will have not only on workers but also on the auto industry’s vast supply chain and the thousands of jobs this will create.
In South Korea, Hyundai Motor and Kia’s moves toward electrification are raising similar concerns among that country’s highly active and organized labor movement.
