“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,” according to Breitbart.
“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:
“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]
For more on this development, go to Breitbart.
Please share your opinion about this report in the comment section.
Much more to learn about this story. But this looks like a total bait and switch: they promised investment in Ohio and reneged.
— J.D. Vance (@JDVance1) March 18, 2021
So, maybe Ohio will now become the first State to secede from the Union in order to keep the Ford plant and the planned expansions. Then Ohio could maintain the Trump tax cut for Ford that will allow them to invest in Ohio and remain profitable. There are 17 Republican States poised to secede…The sad thing my friends is that I suspect that is exactly what the communists and fascists in the Demoncrat party want us to do! After all, their ultimate goal is to divide and conqeur this Republic. However, if these same States all pass laws that require… Read more »
Thanks Joe!
Not buying Ford,..ever!
If Mexicans are coming HERE and taking OUR jobs, and our companies go to Mexico, why don’t USA people go to Mexico & take the Mexicans jobs in OUR companies?
Because we wouldn’t be hired, Mexico doesn’t have U.S. labor laws to contend with.
Hi Kristin, I understand the sentiment and frustration that must lie behind your post. I also encourage you to discuss your suggestion with someone you trust that is knowledgeable about international trade and economics, as it is simply not feasible.
Because Mexico would arrest you for being an illegal migrant and throw you in prison !
Well ain;t that FUNNY you put all your money on BUY DUMB and now it bites you in the ass to bad.You get what you pay for now all of you can stand in the DUMMIES bread line with your tin cups nice job.You had better get your heads out of your asses and put BUY DUMB and THE UN-AMERICA HO OUT OF THE WHITE HOUSE.
HOW LONG ARE YOU GOING TO SIT ON YOU ASS AMERICA TIME TO GET RID OF THIS SOCIALIST BULL SHIT COME ON PEOPLE L& L AND LETS GET ON WITH IT I am 85 yrs old and ready to fight for our country AGAIN EX NAVY SEAL
God bless you. Thank you for your service
Batch, I LIKE the way you think, you tough old geezer; former military here also. We can still turn this around without civil war. 1.) Vote for CLEAN SWEEP! Vote everyone out of office who has more than two complete terms serving in Federal House of Representatives and any senators that have served more than 2 complete terms. Make our government by the people, for the people again! 2.) Support Judicial Watch! 3.) In case I’m wrong ammo up and put aside a 6 month emergency food supply and 2 month emergency water supply, get a satellite telephone, if you… Read more »
As far as I’m concerned this is 100% bidens fault. It is “LONG TERM FINANCIAL LOSS to all employees, everyone involved. Did this company back biden? How many employees did/did not. For those who did..Biden made it known that he would destroy our country long before the election took place! UNEDUCATED, UNEMPLOYED VOTERS WENT AGAINST OUR GREATEST k‘PRESIDENT.. (2 stimulus checks?) FORD must be losing millions++ if they made a decision likely this! TURN YOUR ANGER TOWARDS THE COMMUNIST LEADER WHO PLANNED IN ADVANCE= (PREMEDITATED ACT) AGAINST EACH AMERICAN!! YOU MUST MAKE IT KNOWN ON OUR NATIONAL MEDIA, BIDEN NEEDS… Read more »
Solution, buy only Made in America
Ford’s getting out of America before the CCP-controlled Biden Administration turns our country into a Communist dictatorship. The Demo-RINO UniParty has nothing good planned for America. I’m praying for God’s intervention before those greedy, amoral, freedom-hating, Satan-worshipping, child-abusing, utterly corrupt government thugs that rigged the 2020 election destroy our country and enslave us. Hurry back, Trump. Time is running out.
I’m praying for something more final for our government
I absolutely love your description of the “leadership” that has seized control of our country. Great way to describe them. Thieves, liars, perverts, rotten-to-the-core Communists!
Trump’s reduction of the corporate income tax rate allowed him to win the commitment from Ford for the new
project for Ohio. The Biden administration repealing that tax reduction led Ford to change it’s mind.
Blame Biden but remember unions
supported him.
Unions that were building the Keystone pipeline and the border wall also supported his campaign. Nothing like stabbing your supporters in the back
Or (American workers) cutting off their noses to spite their own faces!
“I have a good job under President Trump, but I think (Biden) will be good for the country…”
Why? Because he promised to destroy the fossil fuel industry, raise taxes, and open the borders? I guess. Tell me again how he would be “good for the country?”
For decades the Democrats have fooled many people into thinking that the Democrats were for the people. The Liberal/Socialist unions have done exactly the very same thing. The unions are not for the workers. The union leaders only use the workers to fill their own pockets.
I heard one man actually say, “I thought he (Biden) would be good for the country.” Another said, “At least I had a job when Trump was in office.”
Buyer’s remorse.
Laurel ,
Too late , too late . They should have done a little thinking before they leaped off the cliff.
You see , they were not required to “like” President Trump. Only to vote for him because he was doing a good job as the president even with so many million Democrats that were opposing every effort he made. Every Democrat in the country was dragging their feet in opposition to President Trump and he STILL did a good job. Can you imagine if they had supported his efforts ?
That is correct. The Liberal/Socialist unions fought tooth and nail to get the Democrats into power. Now you reap that which you have sown .
you can’t stop them. This is a free enterprise country,I think. But what you can do is put a 50% import tax on their cars and truck that come into the US.
If ford does this, i will never buy a ford
again, own 2 now and will sell right away. all americans take action and
show these auto makers how we feel a
about this, ford or any auto maker will feel the wrath of the american people, starting with myself.
Ford is the only US auto maker not to need funding from taxpayers after the UAW exetorted them into bankruptcy and eventually foreign ownership. They are not about to commit financial suicide by demands from UAW and taxation by Biden.
Excuse me, JD Vance, get your head out of your backside, you are NOT smelling Roses. The reason Ford Motor Company changed their mind and to build new products in Mexico instead of the USA (in Ohio), is because of Joe Biden and those idiots in the US Congress (Democrats and RINO’s). The taxes that Biden is pushing for will only destroy the Economy in the USA, and force all surviving businesses to move out of the USA.
Chief Grey Eagle
How does anyone expect a major corporation trust the moron the American people got conned into tutting in the WH? God forbid we end up with ole camel-toe! We’re toast as it is!!!
“Changan Ford Automobile Corporation, Ltd. is a 50-50 Chinese joint venture between Ford Motor Company and China’s state-owned Chongqing Changan Automobile Company, Ltd., one of China’s four biggest auto manufacturers. The company produces and distributes Ford-branded vehicles in China.”
March 16, 2020
http://www.investopedia.com