[Mr. Douglas]

I think Tennessee wants to keep the Volkswagen plant in the state.

[Alberta's Child]

That was a strange case. From what I understand, Volkswagen actually wanted the union because they apparently figured it was easier to run a union plant when all their plants in Germany are unionized. It was the state government in Tennessee that mounted a campaign to keep the workers from joining a union.

[factoryrat]

That depends on the prevailing wage scale of the mexican auto worker.

If Tennessee can keep the pay scale less than $12 an hour for production workers, and less than $25 an hour with subsidized health care and benefits all in, and Tennessee keeps providing tax breaks and subsidies, then the work will probably stay for now.

One thing that most people don’t realize is that mexico has become the #1 automaker in the western hemisphere. All of the suppliers and parts plants are down in mexico now.

What’s left in the US is mainly assembly plants and corporate headquarters.

The only reason they haven’t been moved down to mexico is the still unstable socialist narco oligarchy that runs the government down there.