Posted on 03/18/2019 10:47:23 AM PDT by Red Badger
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump stepped up his pressure on General Motors to reopen an Ohio manufacturing plant that recently closed and put 1,700 people out of work.
Trump's arm-twisting came in a series of separate tweets on Saturday and Sunday . He capped his weekend rant against the GM with a tweetdisclosing that he had vented his frustrations during a conversation with the company's CEO, Mary Barra.
"I am not happy that it is closed when everything else in our Country is BOOMING," Trump wrote. "I asked her to sell it or do something quickly. She blamed the UAW Union — I don't care, I just want it open!"
The union is the United Automobile Workers, which represents the employees who lost their jobs in the Lordstown closure. Trump had previously told a UAW leader, David Green, to "get his act together and produce" for the Lordstown workers.
Green didn't respond to a request for comment Sunday, nor did GM.
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Sure. Or, while were at it, why not just nationalize the car industry? That way the government can control who works and when.
Never thought I’d see so many supposed conservatives favoring Gov’t meddling in private industry.
The ChiComs run their economy and all of our "esteemed" MBAs suck their red < deleted >.
Sounds like you’re a great admirer of their business model.
This is not that hard as you state....lordstown has THE most militant union local in all of GM.... intentional sabotage of equipment, open hostility to contractors, and poor quality... this place needed to be shut down decades ago....
FedGov should buy the factory and lease/sell it at a great rate to a non union car maker like VW or Toyota.
“FedGov should buy the factory and lease/sell it at a great rate to a non union car maker like VW or Toyota.”
Where is that authorized in the Constitution?
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why??? you would end up with the same workforce.... this plant is the only thing there..the building is not the problem, the PEOPLE who work there are the problem
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