In fact, GM is considering closing its largest car factory in North America, the Lordstown, Ohio, plant that builds Chevrolet Cavalier and Pontiac Sunfire. Those sites would include a new plant in Mexico, small and highly efficient, using manufacturing techniques GM is honing in Brazil. Mexico, already home to GM's most efficient North American truck plant, also could play host to new sport-utility vehicles GM was thinking about building in Georgia or Michigan. So while workers see their jobs on the line here, even their children's futures, GM sees its own existence being shaped by arguments over efficiencies. But analysts say that money would be wasted if GM only ends up outlasting the UAW, not outflanking it and getting fundamental changes that make its factories more efficient.
Consumers do whatever they want to do.
That's a chilling attitude, the UAW says, one that leads to U.S. workers becoming expendable.