Didn’t Caterpillar already announce plans to move this plant to Indiana?
Earlier this year, Caterpillar-owned Electro-Motive workers in London, Ontario refused a new contract slashing wages and benefits. After locking out the workers for three weeks, Caterpillar announced it was closing the plant and moving operations to Muncie, Indiana, where it would pay $12.50 an hour compared to $28 an hour in Canada. The Canadian Auto Workers, rather than seeking to unite Canadian and American workers in a common struggle, accepted the closure of the plant.
No, that was the locomotive plant in Canada that’s moved to Muncie, Indiana.
But I suspect that this one in Illinois may well be shut down also.
In the Baraqqi Depression, there is a nearly unlimited supply of eager replacements.