>Doug--Outside of autos things don't look to good do they?
>
>I was talking with the president of a large, if not the largest UAW
>local in Ohio
>yesterday. This gentleman tells me that if China PNTR goes through
>chances are a
>huge expansion plan by a major automaker here in Ohio will be
>derailed. The way
>he sees it the parts plants and the assembly plants are on there way
>out of the
>country and all that will be left in America will be 6 or 7 showplace plants,
>that's it.
Someone who knows the auto industry once told me that the UAW's biggest problem is nonunion parts plants in Ohio, not Mexico (or, by extension, China).
"Outside of autos" is a big exception - a bit over 1 million jobs (about as many people as work for Wal-Mart).
Doug