We had a Ford plant here in northern New Jersey for 25+ years until it closed in the early 1980s. It was reported around here as a sob story very much like your post, but years later I learned about the underlying issues that drove Ford to shut down the plant.
Aside from the problem of declining car sales during the economic malaise of the 1970s, the major reason for the closure of the plant was that it had the worst quality control problems of any Ford plant in the U.S. The UAW was warned repeatedly that this might result in a closure of the plant, but nothing changed.
How does this relate to Baltimore? Simple: the work force at the Ford plant in Mahwah, New Jersey was among the most "diverse" in the company.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest that most of the mutants infesting Baltimore right now (the human ones, not the rats) do not have the mental capacity or emotional maturity to work in a modern industrial economy.
Bad management.