Assuming what you say is true, that's a good compilation, Igor. Thanks.
By the above I don't dispute what you say, just haven't checked it out
for myself.
keith whaley
Igor Roshchin wrote:
Wed Dec 21 20:57:48 EST 2011
Paul Stenquist wrote:
On Dec 21, 2011, at 5:39 PM, Larry Colen wrote:
It's a "tragedy of the commons" thing. For each business it makes
economic sense to move aspects of production off shore to where
labor is cheaper. After a while, nobody is building anything in the
US anymore. Except for Toyota and Honda who now have some car plants
here.
Toyota and Honda plants are in right=to-work states.
Paul, sorry, but I don't think you are correct in this statement.
At least according to this Wikipedia page, Honda's plants in the US
are in Alabama, Ohio and Indiana:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Honda_assembly_plants
According to this list:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-to-work_law
out of these three, only Alabama is a right-to-work state.
According to this Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota ,
Toyota's six major assembly plants in the US are in
Alabama (*), Kentucky, Indiana, Texas(*), West Virginia, and
Missisippi(*). Only 3 of these states (marked with "*") are
right-to-work states.
Mitshubishi has its only plant in Normal, IL, which is not a RTW state
either.
Of all the major Japanese car manufacturers, only Nissan has its plants
exclusively in RTW states (Tennessee and Mississippi).
So, while you are right about the disadvantages of the Big Three due to
the fact that they need to deal with UAW, I suspect that your statement
is based on the legends spread by the US car manufacturers as an excuse
for their bad management and historic inheritance (which is, in some
sense, is also a result of bad management).
Igor
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