Posted on 11/16/2016 5:46:17 AM PST by monkapotamus
Ford’s chief executive officer Mark Fields must not respond well to threats; he admitted to Reuters on Tuesday that Ford was still planning on moving the production of its small cars from Michigan to — you guessed it — Mexico...
Fields claimed that the move would not have any effect at all on American jobs because the move south will “make room for two very important products we’ll be putting back into Michigan plants.”
Ford has yet to announce what, exactly, those “important products” are, but Fields is convinced that the move will lead to “no job impact whatsoever.”
“It’s very difficult for us to be able to make money on a vehicle produced in the U.S,” said Fields, explaining that if they were to raise the cost of their smaller cars to compensate for the increased cost of manufacturing in the United States the car just “wouldn’t sell...”
(Excerpt) Read more at nymag.com ...
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Let’s be honest people, it’s a race to the bottom with a “global worker” wage the norm.
Is this not already a trade war? One that is waged against workers, by globalists, country by country?
Globalism just sucks, in every way.
Best of both worlds.
New white Broncos?
Exactly, and that was announced many weeks ago. Long before the election. But that doesn’t fit into the anti-Trump agenda.
Mexico should be making the car mats.
I wonder if this NY Magazine reporter understands that Trump isn’t actually in office yet and thus, is still just a private citizen with absolutely no power to impact things like this.
The reason for that is, small cars are not profitable. The only way to make them competitive is to use the same labor techniques the rest of the world uses. Those techniques are not possible in the United States because of the UAW work rules. The answer is to move the plant to where they can make a competitive product.
Like it was in the UK, union labor rules are making the US uncompetitive. Notice there are no British owned car makers anymore. Yes they make cars there, but no Brits own the companies. (That’s because the government got involved in bailing out the companies and then ended up selling them because a government can’t even run a whore house at a profit; proven when the IRS took over The Mustang Ranch.)
Didn't you get the memo?
Businesses need to let President ObamaTrump tell them how to run their companies.
Not news.
The Ford planning for shifts in production came long before Trump was mentioned as a candidate, and they probably had tens (or hundreds) of millions of dollars in it when it became an issue.
Ford’s transfer is really a challenge to fed regulations. Higher-profit and lower mpg vehicles will continue to be made in the US. More government squeezing by emission and mpg regulation would then come directly at the expense of American workers while ‘green’ incentives would go to imports. Ford is playing hardball with the bureaucracy.
Trump’s success with the bureaucracy remains to be seen.
If this happened in November 2008, the story would be about how horrible it was that Bush policies pushed Ford to move the plant and how Obama was going to change all that when he took office.
I’ve been driving the same Honda Element - made in Marysville, Ohio - for ten years. It has about 240,000 miles on it, and it looks like it just left the showroom. The engine is getting a little tired, but there’s no smoke, no leaks.
I parked it in 2009. Bought a Chevy HHR SS - made in Mexico. It was a hot rod, and a lot of fun, but the Honda required far less maintenance.
I hope to drive the Element (yeah, it’s ugly) until it reaches 450,000 miles.
Then, I’ll have it crushed into a cube, put a piece of glass on top, and turn it into a coffee table.
Hondas from Ohio; Chevys from Mexico.
What a country...
Every car Hecho en Mexico should have a 3 foot long mandated sticker in the shape of a sombrero on the front windshield stating so.
Some of it is passed on, as you can see in any Walmart aisle. But the main motive of the globalist is of course increased profits.
“Toyota does, Mr. Fields.
So does Subaru.
And BMW.
What’s wrong with your management, Mr. Fields?”
Toyota, Subaru, Honda, Mercedes, Nissan and Mazda all make small cars in the US. The difference ——— they have plants in right to work states and no UAW. In deed, when I bought the Mazda I checked to be sure. Ford needs to move its production to a non union state and cut ties with the UAW.
Good let Ford be the first to get its ass kicked by the 35% tax.
Well Ford is safe for now, Zero is still in office.
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