Posted on 06/22/2018 2:54:22 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Minutes after GM announced that the Blazer would be making a comeback in the 2019 model year, the labor union issued a statement blasting the plan to build the new Blazer at the Ramos Arizpe factory in Mexico.
"This news that the iconic Blazer nameplate will be built in Mexico is disappointing to UAW families and communities across this country," stated Terry Dittes, vice president at the UAW. "GM employs over 15,000 production workers in Mexico, pays the workers less than $3 per hour and exports over 80 percent of the vehicles to the U.S. to sell here. This is all happening while UAW-GM workers here in the U.S are laid off and unemployed."
GM said the decision to build in Mexico was made years ago and that the Blazer's engines are made in the U.S. The Blazer also could get caught up in a potential trade war, with President Donald Trump threatening tariffs on imported vehicles.
The new Blazer, due in showrooms early next year, comes as American buyers continue their shift from cars to trucks and SUVs. This year trucks and SUVs accounted for about two-thirds U.S. new-vehicle sales, with cars making up the rest.
SUVs based on car underpinnings, sometimes called crossover vehicles, are what buyers want these days, and the Chevy brand didn't have a midsize one with two rows of seats to compete
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Just looked at the pictures from the Chevy website. It looks like just like every other cross over with nothing to distinguish it from being different.
No problem. Put a 20% tariff on foreign produced vehicles.
Very much so.
Now, the Pickups are based off the SUVs....
Sow’s ear sorta thing being avoided....
Yes. Read the next article at FR about the probably new leftist president of Mexico.
Boycott all Mexican goods until there is a change of attitude because what we have here, right now, “is a failure to communicate”.
Stop all financial transfers to Mexico until El Presidente in training learns that you don’t screw around with Uncle Sam.
“Made in Mexico” = They can keep it!
So did my stupid union. However 90% of the members voted Trump!
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