Mexico's New Auto Plants Unable To Find Enough Labor... As Detroit Still Suffers ...

Zerohedge ^ | 08/15/2016 | Tyler Durden

[Rusty0604]

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Mexico's New Auto Plants Unable To Find Enough Labor... As Detroit Still Suffers Massive Unemployment

[NEMDF]

Perhaps some millions of illegals here could go back home to take those jobs.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

What a mess.

[SJSAMPLE]

I’ve worked in San Luis Potosi since 2004 and it’s amazing how much has changed. It was a small manufacturing town that’s really begun to grow. Historical city center now surrounded by growing suburbs and more affluent hotels and restaurants. And a 19-1 exchange rate!!! It’s like a vacation from US and China manufacturing.

[donozark]

If Mexico is short of manpower? Call Home Depot.

[Don Corleone]

Mexico's New Auto Plants Unable To Find Enough Labor... As Detroit Still Suffers Massive Unemployment

Hell! They are all here and on welfare. Why work?

[Red Badger]

Let’s all move to Mexico!
It surely must be close to empty by now!..............

[sport]

That is understandable. The Mexicans are in the United States.

[Rusty0604]

Why work when you can get USA money for free?

[dfwgator]

How many folks left in Detroit actually have experience building cars?

[DannyTN]

Minimum wage in Mexico is $4.25/day.
If we are talking 8 hour days, and we are probably talking 10 or 12, that’s $0.53 an hour.

So auto companies are being forced to offer 3x minimum wage or $1.59/hour plus a pair of boots.

Meanwhile the US will keep losing jobs and industries until our wages fall to $1.59/hour and we can compete.
Thanks open borders crowd.

[umgud]

factory wages at the facility at about $1.15 to $2.30 per hour, on par with what other auto-assembly plants currently pay in the region.

Becoming a drug gang member is easier and pays a lot more I'd think.

[MarMema]

Well. Some of Detroit just doesn’t want to work.
Where I am, about 5-6 hours north, we have a huge and serious labor shortage. Super low cost of living, immense natural beauty and wildlife.
OK - redneck and lotsa snow.

But a short move north would provide plenty of jobs.

[PGR88]

In America, we incentivize companies to go overseas through a thousand different tax, insurance, health-care, tort and environmental policies

We also incentivize a good part of the low-skilled population to stay unemployed through various welfare, tax, health-care and insurance policies.

We cover it all up because we have, temporarily, a totally fiat, unbacked dollar, and massive federal debt that can pay for it all.

[dljordan]

“Perhaps some millions of illegals here could go back home to take those jobs.”

They’re probably looking for employees with an IQ above 80.

[central_va]

North American auto OEMs and their tier 2 suppliers have been in a race to move auto production across borders to low-cost countries (LCCs) for the past couple of decades as soaring wages, pension and OPEB obligations made production in the U.S. all but impossible.

A lie refuted by the fact that somehow Toyota makes the best car in the world, the Camry, in the USA.

[central_va]

Somehow the sticker price never seems to reflect the cheaper labor costs. The bastards.... F them.

[stylin19a]

I think detroit suffers from a lack of occupancy problem.

Population(From US Census records)

1980 1,203,368 −20.5%
1990 1,027,974 −14.6%
2000 951,270 −7.5%
2010 713,777 −25.0%
Est. 2015 677,116 [112] −5.1%

[blueunicorn6]

Robots don’t donate to the Democrat Party.

[Tenacious 1]

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