The United Auto Workers union has come out in opposition of General Motors’ recent $1 billion investment at its Ramos Arizpe plant in Mexico, calling the decision to make such a major investment in a foreign country a “slap in the face” for U.S. taxpayers and the American workforce.
The American automaker announced the Ramos Arizpe investment this week, which will transform the facility into a state-of-the-art electric vehicle production facility. Ramos Arizpe will be GM’s fifth EV manufacturing plant, joining Spring Hill Assembly in Tennessee, Factory Zero in Metro Detroit, Lake Orion Assembly in Michigan and CAMI Assembly in Ontario.
Francisco Garza, president of GM Mexico, said the investment “will contribute to continue boosting Mexican manufacturing while bringing development to the region, the industry and the country.” The Ramos Arizpe facility currently builds the Chevy Equinox and Chevy Blazer and employs about 5,600 workers.
In a statement released Thursday, the UAW derided GM’s decision to produce EVs in Mexico that will be intended for consumption in America. The union also criticized GM for pushing politicians in Washington to roll out new government tax incentives and subsidies to support the purchase and production of EVs while simultaneously sending production work for these battery-powered vehicles to Mexico.
“At a time when General Motors is asking for a significant investment by the U.S. government in subsidizing electric vehicles, this is a slap in the face for not only UAW members and their families but also for U.S. taxpayers and the American workforce,” UAW Vice president Terry Dittes said.
“General Motors automobiles made in Mexico are sold in the United States and should be made right here, employing American workers. That is why our nation is investing in these companies. Taxpayer money should not go to companies that utilize labor outside the U.S. while benefiting from American government subsidies. This is not the America any of us signed on for. Frankly, it is unseemly.”
GM responded to the letter by pointing out that it “recently announced nearly 9,000 jobs and more than $9 billion in new electric vehicle or battery cell manufacturing facilities in Michigan, Ohio and Tennessee.”
Renovation work at the Ramos Arizpe plant will be completed by 2023.
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A pox on both of you, UAW and GM.
More like a pox on you and your family, enjoy how that works !
You don’t want all your eggs in one basket, to be a strong company you want production diversity. GM is still investing 9 billion in TN and OH. A stronger Mexico is not a bad thing to the US.
Not to mention the lower wages and export agreements make it a much better place to build cars.
UAW gets what they deserve.
All the leaders of the USMCA are content with the result on what they have blueprinted.
I guess going on strike did not give them much bargaining power. Low wage parts assembly for US. but no higher wage assembly jobs.Where is ”the big guy” bad orange man would be sticking his beak in in this one,how times have changed I think the union endorsed ”the big guy”.
Why the unhealthy obsession with Trump? Cant get him off your mind? How creepy. Trump owns you snowflake.
One part of me hates this but they truly did it to themselves so another part of me has zero sympathy. Maybe they too can learn to code.
Dude,
They were here when “orange man bad” was executing his term, now they’re leaving when Joe”bite me” Biden has announced TRILLIONS in new taxes.
It’s not hard to figure out.
By the way, the UAW endorsed Biden (using google isn’t difficult), and they are getting what they deserve.
Great post.!!!!!!!!!
Have to invest in all of your plants. Don’t get the UAW response. Now if this money was going to them instead of an American plant, that’s a different story.
There are plenty of unemployed workers at the border. Maybe they want a job?
Ha, ha, ha! They waited for Trump to leave office. Too funny.
The UAW did everything they could to defeat him, now they are belly aching about it!
as if feku trump could have prevented this.
he had his chance when he renegotiated USCAM and of course despite all of the bluster and proclamations of success, not that much changed.
now that is funny!!!
He did help carrier,did he not?
that was a PR stunt. carrier continued to ship jobs to mexico after the storm blew over.
But at least Carrier stayed to some extent. Better than a 100 percent empty plant.
The UAW just hasn’t got the message that they don’t matter anymore.
UAW. Unemployed Auto Workers. UAW “Leaders” criminals.
Miss Trump yet.
why would anyone miss trump’s self-pity show? wawawwa not fair!!!
Tell that to the unemployed and misled UAW workers. Uncle Joe is pushing for EVs, but he forgot to mention “Made in Mexico”.
Miss Trump. Reload
The only group that is self-pitying is the UAW. 😏
They made their bed, now they can sleep in it.
Remember the Obama auto bail out? Yes. We have to save American auto workers jobs etc. Etc. GM. Closes a plant in Ohio, and opens one in Mexico. Remember what polictal party wanted this.
You do realize the Bush administration did the first bailout, no?
So what political party wanted what?
Bush??? Must’ve been the NWO then.
GM has to build the lower cost BEVs in countries with lower labor costs. the high dollar ones like the caddy and hummer can be built in the states with higher labor cost because that can be built into sticker price. remember a $40K BEV is a $20K car with a $20K fuel tank.
This is to keep the Unions in check. I would like to see all manufacturing go to Mexico. Any Union worker that voted for Biden is going to regret it.
Why stop there, hopefully you and your family’s jobs go there also, that way you can enjoy your ignorant wish to the fullest.
I am all for buying US made but would rather buy a GM built in Mexico.
Why is that?
Why cant GM management be outsourced to lower cost competent foreign managers????
The only reason you still have GM plants in the USA & Canada is the investment in Mexico. GM could not compete (or any auto mfg) if all plants were union labor only. The UAW will continue to exist because of the Mexico plant not in spite of it!
I guess they will have to import UAW workers from the USA. Nobody left in Mexico.
How come the foreign auto companies can build cars in the U.S. and be profitable? The same wages as the “unionized” american plants.
Go on Indeed or Glassdoor and read about how they run the plants. It’s nothing like GM or Ford.
Because they have plants worldwide; For example Kia:
Kia Motors maintains 14 manufacturing facilities in eight countries, and research centers in South Korea, the US, Japan, and Germany. Countries include the United States, Slovakia, China, India, Japan, Mexico, and Vietnam
Also, all those foreign auto companies are directly subsidized by their home market’s government.
the transplants do not have as many retired workers that are collecting pensions and lifetime medical care.
Did you know that when retired. there are NO cola increases thus falling behind inflation every day. And those who are retired, once on social security have their retirement income reduced by whatever amount they receive from social security. Where the medical care is concerned it is peanuts and less. Not as rosy as some of you seem to project.
Just union jobs