Granted it was a long time ago, but workers in that plant were hostile and they had a lot of labor strife. That cooled down over the years, but a strong union mentality still exists.
Offer decent non union wages and they will come.
Honda already has an assembly plants in OH, I don’t know if they need capacity of another plant, but they are already established in the state.
The plant doesn’t need to be a car plant, per se, but I just hope its able to be put to some sort of use quickly, for Lordstown’s sake... but as I said this wasn’t exactly a surprise. The car they made wasn’t selling and never sold astounding as small cars just aren’t a big market in the US anymore SUV/CUV/Full Size Trucks are where buyers are at, mostly, and they have bigger margins to boot. The plant had already been scaled back to 1 shift, so it was idle 66% of the time... while the formal closing is another blow, its not like Lordstown wasn’t already hurting...
The good news, if there is any, is that thanks to Trumps economic policies things in OHIO are on an upward trajectory, compared to the flat/downward trajectory of the last 12-16 years for the region. Doesn’t meen there won’t be losses or pain, even in best of times there are, but hopefully things will wind up improving in Lordstown.
Well, from a political standpoint its in GM and Trump’s best interest to get something going there fast as possible... but GM has been a broken organization my entire life.... Yes the BK helped some, but don’t think it doesn’t still have a lot of rot left in it.