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[RedDevil]

Slice it any way you want, it (motorcycle assembly) is leaving.  The auto production would have ramped up anyway, creating additional jobs as well as facility expansion (more jobs).  The fact that the folks in motorcycle assembly will be taking those automotive positions just means that new employees won't be hired off the street. 

Jerry

They probably wouldn't have hired any new people off the street in the automobile division anyway, even if they hadn't of closed the M/C division.   That's just the Japanese way of taking care of their workers.  They made room for them in the Auto division.  The Japanese "promise" to their workers is "Once you have a job with us, unless you leave on your own, you have a job for life."  You have to give them credit, they do take care of their employees.  That's one of the reasons that most, I'm not sure if all, of the Janpanese plants here in the U.S. are non-union plants. 

   

[sadunbar]

Have you spent much time in automotive powertrain plants?  I have  -  most every one around - all over the world.  One constant - if you are in a German auto plant, virtually every machine tool is German made.  If in a Japanese auto plant, virtually every machine tool is Japanese made.  It doesn't matter whether the plants are located in Germany, Japan or in the US.  They fill their plants with machine tools made in their country.  Now go to an American car company powertrain or manufacturing plant - you are very hard pressed to find an American made machine tool - in any of them.  And what is there slogan??  "Buy American" - or something like that?  hmmm...

 

[RJ749]

Honda quits U.S. motorcycle production

The first Honda built in America was a 250 Elsinore.
Since 1979, Honda has built motorcycles at its Marysville, Ohio, plant. It was the company’s first production facility here in the United States. Last year, it built 44,000 Gold Wing and VTX models.

No more. Honda has announced that its Marysville and Hamamatsu, Japan, motorcycle manufacturing facilities will be consolidated at a new plant in Kumamoto, Japan.

Marysville currently employs about 450 people. According to reports from Tim Garrett, Honda of America vice president, those employees will likely be transferred to Honda’s Marysville or East Liberty, Ohio, automotive plants.
- By Craig Fitzgerald

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