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Title: Report: Ford to Offshore $900M Plant Investment from Ohio to Mexico
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URL Source: https://www.breitbart.com/politics/ ... nvestment-from-ohio-to-mexico/
Published: Mar 18, 2021
Author: JOHN BINDER
Post Date: 2021-03-21 17:19:50 by BTP Holdings
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Views: 150
Comments: 4

Report: Ford to Offshore $900M Plant Investment from Ohio to Mexico

CLEVELAND, OH - MAY 11: Employees assemble Duratec V-6 engines at Ford Motor Company's Engine Plant No. 1 May 11, 2004 in Cleveland, Ohio. Idle for nearly three years, the plant will now produce engines utilized in the all-new 2005 Ford Five Hundred and Mercury Montego sedans as well as …Shaun Heasley/Getty Images

JOHN BINDER 18 Mar 2021

The Ford Motor Company, a multinational automaker, is reportedly planning to move a $900 million investment originally intended for an Avon Lake, Ohio plant to a site in Mexico, the United Auto Workers (UAW) union alleges.

In a letter to Ohio Assembly Plant (OHAP) employees in Avon Lake, where Ford employs about 1,740 workers manufacturing its F-650 and F-750 medium duty trucks, UAW official Gerald Kariem said Ford had committed to investing $900 million in the project in 2019.

The massive investment, Kariem wrote to workers, included a Ford commitment to bring a “next-generation product” to the Ohio Assembly Plant for production by 2023 and an “exciting vision for the complete revitalization” of the plant to secure “employment well into the foreseeable future.”

“These contractual commitments were an enormous win for the UAW, for the great state of Ohio, the community of Avon Lake, and most importantly the members of Local 2000,” Kariem wrote.

Now, though, the UAW official says Ford executives are backing out of the deal and plan to move the investment to Mexico [emphasis added]:

Unfortunately, Ford Motor Company has decided it will not honor its promise to add a new product to OHAP and, instead, it intends to build the next-generation vehicle in Mexico. Ford management expects us to just hang our heads and accept the decision. But let me be clear, we are making a different choice. We 100 percent reject the company’s decision to put corporate greed and more potential profits over American jobs and the future of our members. We expect the company to honor its contractual commitments to this membership and when it fails to do so we will take action. [Emphasis added]

Kariem said the UAW has asked Ford executives for explanations on why the decision was made to move the intended investment for Ohio to Mexico.

Ohio native and author of the New York Time‘s best-selling book Hillbilly Elegy JD Vance called the decision by Ford “total BS” and “a total bait and switch” move in a statement.

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#1. To: BTP Holdings (#0)

Did not Trump talk them out of this move??? I wonder if the Union had anything to do with the move, PAYOFF????

Darkwing  posted on  2021-03-21   18:59:59 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: Darkwing (#1)

Did not Trump talk them out of this move??? I wonder if the Union had anything to do with the move, PAYOFF????

Why do you think Ford is moving the operation to Mexico? Simply because they can do it. And Mexicans work cheaper than UAW members.

Regardless of them needing to build a new plant there, there is no OSHA or workmen's compensation for on the job injuries.

Now they need to rustle up some of the 30,000 migrants at the southern border who want to come to the U.S. because "Biden invited us" and put them to work in the new plant. ;)

"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke

BTP Holdings  posted on  2021-03-21   19:25:32 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: BTP Holdings (#0)

This will keep the immigrants from entering the country as there will be about 30k new jobs created there in Mexico as the result. This is what happens when big business gets involved in Immigration. They move jobs overseas to keep the immigrants out of America.

"Call Me Ishmael" -Ishmael, A character from the book "Moby Dick" 1851. "Call Me Fishmeal" -Osama Bin Laden, A character created by the CIA, and the world's Hide And Seek Champion 2001-2011. -Tommythemadartist

TommyTheMadArtist  posted on  2021-03-22   9:27:53 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: TommyTheMadArtist (#3)

30k new jobs

That number of new jobs in Mexico is a drop in the bucket and will do no good to alleviate the job and money shortage that is rampant in that seriously overpopulated country.

It does help the corporations who do not have to comply with OSHA, EPA and other U.S. regulatory agencies. ;)

"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke

BTP Holdings  posted on  2021-03-22   10:12:42 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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