The automakers including the transplants have been and are putting tremendous downward pressure on all of their suppliers---either do it for our price or we will import it!
Tom
Doug Henwood wrote:
> Tom Lehman wrote:
>
> >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