Ford To Build New Plant In Mexico

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Ford is proceeding to build a new plant in Mexico. A 1.6 BILLION DOLLAR plant to make small cars...more profitable.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2016/04/05/ford-mexico-jobs-new-plant/82649768/

Average auto worker in Mexico makes 7.79/hour compared to the US & Canada making over $30 an hour. Auto jobs grew 40% in Mexico while they grew 15% in the US. Blamed partially on NAFTA signed 2 decades ago.
 

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Yup, more good manufacturing jobs leaving the U.S. Heck, if you check the window sticker on some of these cars, many of the "foreign" brands are more "American", than the traditional US brands. Many of the foreign cars are assembled in the U.S. and have a higher US parts content than some of our own brands. These Auto manufacturers have NO allegiance to their home nations....it's all about the Profits.

But then, cars are like most other things...the average Consumer puts a higher priority on Price, than where its made. That is why China has become such an industrial giant. "Cheap" is all that matter to more and more people...especially as our once vibrant Middle Class continues to decline. It's a vicious circle that is only destined to continue...until the growing Disparity of Wealth is finally given some serious attention.
 
GM has been building cars in Mexico for years. It damn near broke my heart when I learned a few years back that Hershey was going to start making some of their Kisses and other candies in Mexico.
 

Contract talks for the Big 3 are coming up in Canada this year. General Motors has pulled out completely out of Windsor, over 5000 jobs gone and they are talking about leaving Oshawa next.

Fords here in Windsor once employed a workforce of over 4000 and now under 1000 and the only plant that can boast productivity is the Chrysler minivan plant.

As much as I hate to see these well paying jobs gone the union must shoulder some of the blame. Wages and benefit packages that come up to something like $67 an hour with gold plate pension.

Just a few of the perks demanded and given to the auto workers over and above the standard medical and dental are legal advice, massages, and even marriage counselling, I kid you not.

And of course they threaten to strike if the toilet paper is replaced with a no name brand. So is it any wonder the jobs are leaving. I hope they wake up before all jobs here are lost.
 
It's sad to think of the pride of a company like Ford,to go to Mexico and provide jobs there than iits own country.

Several companies here,like the big telephone nompanies,you make a call and you are talking to someone in the Philipines while the unemployment rate has gone up.
 
hey Vicky, a little trick about Ma Bell that sometimes works to avoid the overseas calls is to hit the button for French. The French version goes to Quebec, Canada and the ones that answer are bilingual and will answer in English :D
 
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hey Vicky, a little trick about Ma Bell that sometimes works to avoid the overseas calls is to hit the button for French. The French version goes to Quebec, Canada and the ones that answer are bilingual and will answer in English :D
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Oh I make sure I talk to someone here and complain too. Lol
 
Some say these foreign build plants help globalize the economy/business and bring under developed countries into the main stream. But Ford in particular should've learned a lesson from the Brazil plant they built a decade ago at this point. Brazil's economy is in shambles, there is political turmoil and just one city can't even get their act together for the Olympics. Mexico isn't Brazil although it's darn close at times. Point is Ford could very well lose their 2 BILLION dollar investment in Brazil. Who is going to buy these cars in these economies. The reason the wages are cheaper is that the local wage doesn't have to pay for the stuff an American worker has to pay for. They are two different standards of living and economies so of course there will be differences in wages. It's NOT just that 'greedy' US worker.
 

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