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    Default Ford cancels Mexico plant, expands U.S. factory and adds 700 jobs

    Ford Motor announced Tuesday that it would cancel plans for a $1.6 billion Mexico plant and launch a Michigan expansion in a move that may be viewed as a capitulation to Donald Trump.

    Ford CEO Mark Fields said the company would spend $700 million and add 700 jobs to "transform and expand" its Flat Rock, Mich. manufacturing plant to make autonomous and electric vehicles.

    "Make no mistake about it — Ford is a global automaker but our home is right here in the United States," Fields said at a press conference

    he move marks a sharp reversal for Ford, which has defended its production in Mexico even as Trump has assailed the company for expanding there.

    "This is a vote of confidence for President-elect Trump and some of the policies he may be pursuing," Fields said.
    To be sure, Ford acknowledged that it would still move production of the next-generation Focus sedan to Mexico, as previously announced. But it will be built at an existing plant in Hermosillo, Mexico, not at a new facility.

    the United Auto Workers hailed the decision.

    "We've seen our jobs go overseas," UAW Vice President Jimmy Settles said. "It's evident today that Ford is rewarding us for our hard work."

    Others will view the move as a bid to satisfy Trump, who has cited Ford's Mexico expansion as a key example of how the North American Free Trade Agreement has weakened American manufacturing.

    Ford Executive Chairman Bill Ford called Trump this morning to inform the president-elect of the decision, and Fields called incoming Vice President Mike Pence.

    "Automakers are facing a situation where they have to consider the political consequences" of all their decisions, AutoTrader.com analyst Michelle Krebs said.


    Ford's expansion will convert 700 temporary jobs at the Michigan plant into permanent positions, adding to an existing hourly staff of about 3,600. Fields said the automaker will add about 200 jobs at its plant in Hermosillo, Mexico, to make the Focus but did not say how much it would invest.
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    awesome. Trump bitched and complained and it paid off. This is why I love the guy.
    forget the Tweets - he's hand on!

    He's singularly brought back manufacturing to the USA -when Obama said it would take a "magic wand"-

    forget Mueller and the Dems..MAGA baby!

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    I think the Flat Rock plant will also manufacture hybrid/battery models

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    The left seems disinclined to celebrate this good news for working-class Americans in the Rust Belt. Why would that be?

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    Maybe because you are extrapolating an incident into a trend which is not happening. https://www.freep.com/story/money/ca...afta/27551801/ Left knows the plants are moving over the border.

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    autonomous and electric vehicles dudes


    the latino worker base don't have access to this training like Americans do


    See education is important huh

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