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How One of the World's Strongest Car Unions Is Dealing With EV Job Losses

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The threat to jobs caused by the electric vehicle transition isn’t just a hot-button issue in the US, where a presidential election campaign is in full swing.

In Japan, the heads of Toyota Motor Corp., which employs around 70,000 staff in the country, are grappling with how the carmaker’s technological transformation will impact not only its workers but the nation’s vast auto supply chain and the thousands of jobs it supports.