GM Will Build EVs In Mexico, UAW Calls It 'A Slap In The Face'

[mahatmakanejeeves]

THE MORNING SHIFT

GM Will Build EVs In Mexico, UAW Calls It 'A Slap In The Face'

Adam Ismail
Friday 10:30AM

The United Auto Workers union is none too pleased with General Motors’s big investment in a Mexican plant, Volkswagen may be approaching its day of reckoning for its dumb Voltswagen joke, and Stellantis is bringing in a friend from France. All this and more in this Friday edition of The Morning Shift for April 30, 2021.

1st Gear: GM’s Spending $1 Billion To Build EVs In Mexico And The UAW Isn’t Happy About It

GM plans to start building electric vehicles at its Ramos Arizpe plant in Mexico starting in 2023. To do it, it’ll need to make a hefty investment to retool the factory first, to the tune of $1 billion. Ramos Arizpe is currently where GM produces the Chevrolet Blazer and Equinox, and starting later this year it’ll begin making batteries and electric drive components too.

The UAW isn’t loving the news, Automotive News reports:

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[JohnSJ]

1. What is their reasoning behind this?

[mahatmakanejeeves]

2. I had to snip after four paragraphs. There's a lot more to the story. NT

[WHITT]

3. Not To Defend GM

but the reason they want to build a few specific vehicles in Mexico is because they want to export certain specific vehicles to the rest of the world, and Mexico is a tariff-free global platform with tariff-free reciprocity with many other major countries. If they exported from the U.S. there would be major tariffs.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

4. I did not know this. Thank you. NT