There is a market in the USA for diesel engines....
Yes, and it’s saturated; again, people are holding off on purchases because of the Obam-economy. Every one of the big diesel engine makers has lots of excess capacity right now, and Cummins finally landed a nice big export order... that it can’t fulfill because of idiot union dock workers.
Who do you think Nissan’s going to call the next time they need diesel engines for their new Titans being built here? Cummins, who couldn’t deliver to their more important (to Nissan) Japanese commercial truck assembly line? Or are they more likely to call their UD Diesel subsidiary, who has operations in Mexico?
The idiot dock workers aren’t just ‘blocking crap from China’ but also screwing over many, many US companies who have made the sacrifices to keep production work in the US. Every day they screw with ship movements is another day for US manufacturers to think, “Well, we tried, might as well just move overseas.” So, yeah, keep cheering on the dock workers. Never mind the good US jobs that those dock workers are destroying. They couldn’t be as important, right?