How come they can figure it out and GM cannot?
This will not get a lot of press.
Transplants were very smart.
Primarily in right to work states.
And spread out in a lot of different states to allow maximum political leverage (back before we had a dictatorship form of govt).
They all will be at risk in the next decade IMHO as China comes in bigtime. With China having control of our interest rates (via bond sales) they can even override our dictator.
GM is burdened by its past sins. They let the UAW dictate too much and now they are trapped by decades old contracts to provide insurance and benefits and pay that are way out of line with what their foreign competitors are paying to US workers.