It's been an interesting first year for Hyundai Alabama CEO Chris Susock.
There’s no other way to say it - the new CEO of Hyundai’s Montgomery auto manufacturing plant took on the job at an interesting time.
Susock, who has been with Hyundai in Alabama since before the plant began operating, said both issues deal with the values that Hyundai and its workers have. “The UAW is the UAW,” he said. “The new leadership, or the current administration of their leadership, I’ll be honest, I don’t see as being much different than it has been in the past. They’re established. They have their own set of traditional values. I don’t think it’s changed much. Maybe the inspiration has changed. At the end of the day, I don’t think it changes much in how they operate.”
Susock said the issues at Volkswagen’s Chattanooga plant, where the UAW won its first plant election in the deep South, or even at Mercedes-Benz, may be more specific to those plants. “I can’t speak directly about Mercedes-Benz, but they’re probably in the same boat we are,” he said. Susock said Hyundai took immediate action when Reuters reported the use of child labor at an Alabama supplier two years ago. He said the company reviewed all of its suppliers and required them to conduct independent audits of their operations. It also created a supplier training program, in collaboration with the Department of Labor.
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