$2.4b walkthrough 14k American jobs eliminated, next day GM announced $2.7b investment in Brazil. Hmmm wonder where those $s came from.
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We can produce everything here and export it. If we can build engines in the US then put them on a ship , we can build cars here and put them on a ship too. Imagine if we had more open plants in Michigan , Flint , Detroit all of the ones that GM closed , can you imagine how wealthy our state would be. If Ford can build autonomous in Flat Rock GM can build autonomous in DHAM or perhaps boost the economy up in a once thriving Flint. Aside from the line workers there are an awful lot of engineering teams that work in those plant right along side , truth is GM dosent want our country to thrive becuse it touches the executives wallet. If I am wrong then prove it! Ford and Chrysler are making big efforts GM is not.
1jxz- in my sleepy head mind this morning I miss spelled . Yes censored is the correction haha , my mistake. My point is that I'm sure they have people reading. Anyway it dosent matter Brazil's economy comes first and so does China's. My original comment was I worked with a female enginer and her and her husband went on business to Brazil and they we're in a cab and almost murdered , she's Brazilian and now works here and lives here , she told us she will never return to her home country again , it's corrupt and brutal , further I worked with another female enginer from China and didn't recommend me visit there. My comment was deleted and I'm sure this one will be too.
from freep : " General Motors plans to invest $2.7 billion in two of its plants in Brazil over the next five years. Sao Paolo state Governor Joao Doria said that the two plants were set for closure last December and he convinced GM to reverse the decision and save the jobs there. "
So they convinced GM to reverse their decision?
The word is "censored", "sensor" means something completely different. But I'm not the native English speaker, so let's call it deletion.
Posting names, derogatory comments towards individuals or groups (racial, ethnic, gender, etc), trolling, bullying, spamming, those are some things that can trigger deletion of posts here. Site admins nuke your posts and block you from posting from that IP address any further. Source - me, they nuked all of my posts few months ago, on proxy ever since.
As for GM owning this site, anything is possible, but to think they would have created this site and thousands other of forums on it, just to be able to moderate this forum is highly unlikely. And if they did, wouldn't they have nuked all negative comments, not just that particular one?! I seriously doubt they even know this forum exist.
This is a GM run layoff site that is sensored
It's a global company , Name change - Global Motors , just like GPS in Pontiac , Global propulsion systems. Aka the secret society of Balls and Shaft
So anyone want to make the case that GM is an American company?
This thread is being sensored and edited by either the owner of the site or GM. Specific comments have been removed that are factually correct by real stories from real engineering folks from Brazil and China. Must have hit a real soar spot.
Thanks, @wht. Didn’t know that.
Who here even realizes that ZERO dollars involve new assembly plants (there are only 3 in Brazil, like Mexico even though there is the perception Mexico is flooded with GM assembly plants) and ZERO of these Brazilian vehicles are exported to Canada or the US. This is all about upgrading these plants to build future product for this region(Chevrolet Onix/Prisma/Spin/Cobalt)
Disclaimer: I am a former North American employee who worked extensively in this region.
As a 20 year GM veteran, all I can say is GM s---s. I am glad I left. Of GM, Ford and Chrysler, GM seems to outsource way more than the other two. Never will buy another GM vehicle.
Could it be a strong division accuring I'm American due to corporate and the government pitting us against eachother? Clearly they feel we are way over paid and have made the business case to do more outside of the US , meanwhile management on up get paid fat stacks of cash.
Didn’t Ford just close their San Paulo plant because they couldn’t make a profit?
It's inevitable till cars can be build fully automated because Wage is MUCH cheaper in south america, as a business, why wouldn't they?