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Originally Posted by CourtJester
It's amazing what keeping plants outside of the US will do for the bottom line.
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You do understand that since 2010, GM has re-opened more US assembly plants than its closed, right? And in the same time period they've closed/idled/sold 5 international assembly plants (and another on the way next year) without opening any since 2008.
Some component plants (in the US and around the world) have also been closed down in that time. But I don't have any info on whether those parts are getting bought from another domestic supplier or being brought in from overseas.
Yes, some parts plants have been shut down. I bet others have gotten another shift added because of parts consolidation or productivity improvements. In nearly all plants workers, have been replaced with robots. Thats where nearly all the manufacturing jobs in the developed world have gone in the last ~20 years. Not some foreign low wage country, but to local no wage robots. But that explanation takes away the scary boogieman, takes away the easily identifiable threat. And makes it seem like the jobs
could come back. But those jobs aren't coming back, not unless the United States (or insert any other wealthy developed nation) suffers some collapse that makes
them a source of cheap, no complaint labour. Anyone who says otherwise either doesn't know what they're talking about or is lying.