Midwest loses hold on auto parts Increasingly, firms move factories south, following automakers

The Detroit News ^ | December 2, 2003 | Ted Evanoff

[Between the Lines]

Detroit already has lost dominance of the car market and its share of the all-important light truck business is slipping. Now, the Midwest may lose its traditional role as the center of the auto parts industry.

"The balance of the auto industry is shifting South," said Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago economist Thomas Klier.

[Between the Lines]

[2banana]

Midwest loses hold on auto parts Increasingly, firms move factories south, following automakers

And what is so special about the south?

1. Right to work
2. Much lower taxes

[Tacis]

How could he possibly talk about this shift without once mentioning the curse of the UAW? There are the same workers! Detroit auto workers originally migrated from the south and went where the jobs were.

Even with the same pay and benefits, the absence of the UAW and its "union business" employees, constant threats, outrageous work rule limitations, and interference with managing the business, significantly reduces the southern emolyers overhead.

Of course, the UAW HAD to do these things in order to provide millions of union dollars and thousands of union volunteers to support the democrats" anti-Americanism. Bill Conyers, one of the cleverest and most devious of the anti-American dems in Congress understands this flight, all too well.

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Asian and European companies have tended to put their assembly lines in the nonunion and lower-cost South.

There it is.

[q_an_a]

In fifty years the auto industry will look like the apparel industry. The biggest factories will all have left the northern states, as they left N.Y. Mass and Conn to go to N.C and S.C.