Les
entreprises automobiles continuent d’annoncer un
retour aux investissements sur le continent américain et plus
particulièrement
dans le Michigan. C'est ainsi que General Motors prévoit la création de
450 nouveaux emplois pour la seule ville de Detroit et cela à un horizon
d'un an. Avec l'arrivée de nouvelles entreprises, Detroit va très vite
redevenir attractif et l’immobilier profitera à plein de ce nouvel
essor
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Autonews - Nick Bunkley - January 17, 2017
GM to invest $1 billion in U.S. manufacturing, move axle work from Mexico
DETROIT --
General Motors today said it would invest $1 billion in its U.S. manufacturing operations
to create or retain 1,500 jobs in this country.
The
automaker, in an announcement timed to ease pressure from President-elect
Donald Trump, also said it would move production of pickup axles from Mexico to
Michigan and create at least 5,000 more U.S. jobs in other parts of its
business during the next few years.
GM did not
say how many of the 1,500 manufacturing jobs would be new as opposed to
positions that otherwise would have been outsourced or eliminated without the
investment. The company said insourcing axles for the next generation of its
full-size pickups, expected to debut in 2018, would create 450 jobs in
Michigan.
“As the U.S.
manufacturing base increases its competitiveness, we are able to further
increase our investment, resulting in more jobs for America and better results
for our owners,” GM CEO Mary Barra said in a statement. “The U.S. is our home
market and we are committed to growth that is good for our employees, dealers
and suppliers and supports our continued effort to drive shareholder value.”
Barra said
she expects GM’s financial arm, advanced technologies and other
non-manufacturing growth areas to generate more than 5,000 additional U.S. jobs
“over the next few years.”
Trump
indirectly referenced GM’s investment in a series of Twitter posts about 30
minutes after the company’s announcement.
“With all of
the jobs I am bringing back into the U.S. (even before taking office), with all
of the new auto plants coming back into our country and with the massive cost
reductions I have negotiated on military purchases and more,” he wrote, “I
believe the people are seeing ‘big stuff.’”
The news
comes three days before Trump’s inauguration and follows similar investment
announcements from Ford Motor Co. and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles. Trump, in a
nationally televised news conference last week, praised those companies and
said he hoped GM would follow suit.
“I think
they will be,” Trump said Jan. 11, though it was unclear whether he had
knowledge of GM’s plan or if he was merely encouraging the company to do so.
'Mostly
theater'
“All of the
decisions behind today’s announcement are good business decisions, and they
have been in the works for some time," GM spokesman Pat Morrissey said.
“There’s no question there is an emphasis on job creation in the U.S. right
now. This was good timing for us to share what we are doing, including our
ongoing commitment and track record for U.S. investment over the last several
years.”
The
announcement is “mostly theater to play in the news cycle created by
President-elect Trump’s tweets,” Michelle Krebs, a senior analyst with
Autotrader, said in a statement. “These investments and hiring plans have long
been in the works and are a continuation of what the company has been doing in
recent years -- trying to run a successful, profitable business. The only thing
‘new’ here is GM’s aggressiveness in announcing its plans.”
The Wall Street
Journal on Monday evening first reported
GM’s intention to announce new U.S. investments.
Trump has
threatened 35 percent tariffs on vehicles imported to the U.S. from Mexico. In
addition to the Detroit 3, he has said Toyota Motor Corp. and BMW should build
plants in the U.S. instead of Mexico if they want to sell those vehicles in
this country.
He told a
German newspaper that Germany had an unfair relationship with the U.S. because
Germans don’t buy Chevys at the same rate that Mercedes-Benz sells in the U.S.
GM dropped the Chevy brand in Europe in 2015 to focus on Opel instead.
Latest U.S.
investment
GM said the
investment is on top of $2.9 billion announced for its U.S. operations last
year and $21 billion invested in its home country since 2009. In the past four
years, it said it has created 25,000 U.S. jobs, including 6,000 hourly
manufacturing positions and added nearly $3 billion in annual wages and
benefits to the U.S. economy.
Barra, who
has been chosen to sit on an economic advisory panel to Trump, last week said
she was looking forward to showing GM’s contributions to U.S. employment as the
new administration considers any new manufacturing policies.
“We look
forward to having the conversation with the administration and with the
president-elect to make sure they understand,” Barra told reporters. “When you
look at our industry, and General Motors specifically, of how much we already
contribute to jobs and the long-lead aspects of our business, that’s what we
want to make sure is understood and we think that voice will be heard as any
policy is set.”
In addition
to its own axle-making jobs, GM said one of its suppliers has committed to
moving 100 jobs from Mexico to build unspecified components for the
next-generation pickups in Michigan.
UAW-GM Vice
President Cindy Estrada, in a statement, said the GM announcement stemmed from
the company's 2015 union contract agreement.
“Today’s
announcement continues GM investments that have emerged as a result of the 2015
national bargaining agreement. We are pleased that there will be over $1
billion in new investment for current and future UAW GM members. Through hard
work and the quality products we build, UAW-GM members, their families and
their communities will benefit.
"We
will continue to work with GM to bring more product to the United States and
enhance the job security of our UAW members."
Mexico focus
Mexico has
been the central focus of Trump’s criticism of GM and other automakers. In a
Jan. 3 post on Twitter, Trump said GM should pay a “big border tax” to import
Chevrolet Cruze hatchbacks from Mexico.
He made that
threat just hours before Ford said it was canceling a $1.6 billion plant in
Mexico and instead expanding a plant in Michigan. FCA later said it would spend
$1 billion to add 2,000 jobs in Michigan and Ohio.
Both
companies said the decisions were based on market conditions and not directly
in response to Trump, but they also have more or less allowed the
president-elect to take the credit. Ford said it still plans to move small-car
production from Michigan to Mexico, a plan Trump has called “disgraceful.”
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