General Motors may be planning to shift its car production to China within the next couple of years.If reports in The Telegraph are true, GM may start manufacturing cars in China as soon as 2011 and importing them back to the US.
These plans may come as a shock to those who know that GM were given over $15 billion dollars by the US govenrment in order to safeguard its US workers — it’s hard to see how shifting production to China will help the US economy. It appears the American car is going to become a lot less American.
GM already produces some of their cars outside the US, in countries such as South Korea and Mexico and believe they will be producing many more cars outside the US in the near future.
Unsuprisingly GM’s union members are less than happy about the news, as Alan Reuther, part of the United Auto Workers union states, ‘GM should not be taking taxpayer’s money simpy to finance the outsourcing of jobs to other countries’.
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