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UAW Blasts GM Plan to Sell Chinese-Made Cars in US
Aug 19, 2015 Agence France-Presse and IW
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Car sales are slowing in China, where GM has installed a huge production base
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DETROIT — The United Auto Workers union blasted General Motors Tuesday for
considering selling Chinese-built Buick Envisions in the United States and
vowed to try to kill the plan during ongoing contract negotiations.
“After the sacrifices made by U.S. taxpayers and the US workforce to make
General Motors the profitable quality company it is today, UAW members are
disappointed with the tone-deaf speculation that the Envision would be imported
from China," said Cindy Estrada, the UAW vice president responsible for the
union's relations with GM.
"GM should stand by its declaration that it will build where it sells," Estrada
said in a statement.
"The Envision should be made in the US by the workforce that saved GM in its
darkest time, and UAW members intend to address this issue in contract talks.”
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GM spokesman Nick Richards said reports about importing the Envision, a compact
sport utility vehicle GM put on sale in China in 2014, are "speculative."
"We have not announced the Buick Envision for any markets other than China,
where it has been extremely successful to date," he told AFP. "As a matter of
practice, we don't discuss future product plans."
GM declined to comment on reports that in 2016 it would shift production of the
Buick Verano sedan from Michigan to China; production of the Buick Regal from
Canada to either China or Europe; and also start importing the Buick Cascade
convertible from Europe.
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The speculation comes as Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump has
seized on trade with China as a campaign issue and called for leveling a 25%
tariff on Chinese imports.
Buick is one of GM's most popular brands in China and the automaker sell
roughly four Buicks in China for every Buick it sells in North America.
But car sales are slowing in China, where the Detroit-based carmaker has
installed a huge production base over the past decade. And SUV sales are
climbing in the U.S. with lower gas prices.
The UAW is in the middle of negotiations of new labor pacts with GM, Ford and
FCA.
Union president Dennis Williams has said a pay raise is the union's top
priority. However, the potential for lost jobs and production will certainly
complicate talks, especially after both GM and Ford announced major investments
in Mexico.
A substantial portion of all the vehicles built in Mexico are exported to the
United States.
GM chief executive officer Mary Barra told reporters in June that she would not
negotiate with the UAW in public and preferred to keep any discussions behind
closed doors--a policy both sides have adhered to since talks began last month.
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mfg eng
on Aug 20, 2015
The American people should speak for themselves. Let any China import vehicle
rot on the dealership lots. The UAW is not needed to speak for American
patriotism.
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ketstang
on Aug 20, 2015
If American people don't let them rot on the dealership lots, I guarantee they
will rot within two years in their driveways. Made in China = junk!
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DanD
on Aug 20, 2015
The beginning of the end Act 3 for the US Auto industry and American mfg jobs!
We have seen this play before. GM sells out American Mfg and the American
Factory worker again. Every consumer must first have a good paying job to
consume. Jobs go and so goes a healthy economy. Hello.....GDP growth rate since
2000 is less than 2% as consumerism wins out over good paying job creation.
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BobLoblah
on Aug 21, 2015
22Aug15.....Its all happened before. When the country started this Free Trade
bullschidt, American factory owners shifted quickly to Asia and Southeast Asia
to build their factories and proceeded to emply ' cheap ' labor to build
anything and everything from needles, to soap, to hair nets, to washers and
dryers, to sewing machines, to cars and trucks, to false teeth and hearing
aids. The American worker was ' stabbed in the back.' Those idiots who
thought that they were saving on having cheap labor, now had taken on paying
more taxes to support the unemployed back home in America. Add to this, the
fact that 95% of Immigrants to the West continued to purchase produced back in
their original countries that caused them to ' flee ' in the first place
because of corruption, lies, and crookery. Yet, they didn't have the brains to
' buy ' American to help the country that took them in and help the economy.
Nope. They couldn't see the forest for the trees. Of course, anyone who
pointed this out was branded as ' racist ' and the politically correct idiots
jumped on their backs....at the behest of organizations invented for that and
were making millions.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch....if anyone thinks that the Chinese cars and
trucks will last, just don't have any brains. The Chinese wouldn't know a
good, solid product if it ran out their ears. No worries though, with the
price of OIL hovering just over $39.00 bbl, it won't take tooooo long now and
most of the WholeWideWorld will begin a ' slow rot. '.........Go figure...
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