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They're blaming GM closures on Trump now
Even though they are closing down here in Canada too
And it's a Canadian publication
Trump is the left's scapegoat
Meanwhile, Trump is threatening some credits and subsidies GM received over the closures.
Trying to bully GM into opening other plants. If the UAW doesn't flip by 2020, they're nuts. This is exactly what the UAW would want in a politician.
The GM closures were in the works for a long time. While workers were getting laid off and production slowed, new factories were being built in Mexico. They should have seen this coming
Really, GM is moving out of the small car market. Ford did something similar. These are the small car plants.
The question is why they don't want to retool.
Except the plant here in Canada made the Chevy Silverado and it was still shut down
Supposedly, they're looking to "look to the next big thing" and will probably put the money into research. Which is not necessarily a bad idea. But I think there's alot of doubts.
To say Trump is somehow behind the closures is clueless. I wonder what is being said around the UAW. They have to be noticing.
They said the next best thing is electric and autonomous vehicles. The Chevy volt was already being built in the US and the existing factories could have been adjusted for autonomous vehicles.
Yeah, there's reasons to have doubts. As I said, it's probably research. So they'd be putting the money to the University of Michigan or something.
But GM can get away with paying workers almost nothing and in a currency worth much less than the US dollar. They cost less than the robots replacing workers up here.
In Mexico?
Yes. GM is building new plants for electric and autonomous vehicles there. One of the few places they are actually hiring workers in North America.
They are not downsizing by any means
Just relocating
You can see current GM plants as well as all the ones they have sold or torn down. Note that it also includes subsidiaries that aren't in the auto industry.
Well we know Trump is threatening to hit GM in the pocketbooks. What's Trudeau doing?
Nothing. He's a pushover as always
After all, "The budget will balance itself"
Here's one of the expanding plants in Mexico
Some of the plants were built as early as 1968, right about when they started laying off in the US.
Others were more recent
Abolish Social Security. I’d be better off keeping all that money .
Martial law has gone into effect in several areas in Ukraine: Vinnitskaya, Luganskaya, Nikolaevskaya, Sumskaya, Odesskaya, Kharkovskaya, Chernogorskaya, Donetskaya, Zaporozhskaya, Khersonskaya oblasts plus the Azovo-Kerchenskaya territorial waters.
Fire at a Ministry of Finance building in Kiev this morning.
Georgia elected a female president.
F
Gonna be interesting if they actually use the martial law to restrict constitutional rights (as they're allowed to do that)
The EU want to criminalise criticism of migration
https://twitter.com/ColumbiaBugle/status/1068116062942576640?s=19
Literally exactly this
