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 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
