UAW statement by President Bob King on second presidential debate (more jobs coming back to the USA!

[Omaha Steve]

For immediate release: Oct. 17, 2012



UAW statement by President Bob King on second presidential debate



DETROIT – President Obama clearly won Tuesday night’s debate by revealing just who he is to the American people: a strong, steady and decisive president with a vision to move this nation forward and build the economy from the middle out, not the top down.

Unlike Mitt Romney, in 2009 the president made a bold decision and stood up for American workers, helping to save the auto industry. Today, the domestic automakers are adding jobs, and the domestic auto industry is mounting a comeback, adding back more than 230,000 jobs since June 2009 – the fastest pace of job growth in the auto industry since the 1990s.

The UAW has taken an active roll in calling for limiting the jobs that can go overseas. Like President Obama, we recognize outsourcing is a problem that greatly contributed to our nation’s economic woes. The UAW won major insourcing victories in the recent contracts with the domestic automakers, including the designation of the Ford Flat Rock, Mich., plant as the second source for the next-generation Fusion that was solely built in Mexico, reopening the General Motors (GM) plant in Spring Hill, Tenn., with car production that was slated for Mexico, and production of the first subcompact car, formerly made exclusively in South Korea and slated for Mexico, to the GM plant in Lake Orion, Mich.

The UAW and Ford are also bringing production of the C-Max from Europe to the Ford plant in Wayne, Mich., the Medium Truck and the frame assembly from Mexico to Ohio, and the Ford Transit Commercial Van from Europe to Kansas City, Mo. There is also insourcing of transmissions, engines and castings, and other automotive parts to GM and Ford plants in Michigan and Ohio.