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Re: BART’s New Fleet: Made in the USA, but Maybe Not in California |
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Posted by Jackson Park B Train on Sat Feb 25 13:09:32 2012, in response to BART’s New Fleet: Made in the USA, but Maybe Not in California, posted by Gold_12TH on Sat Feb 25 12:22:03 2012. waaaaa, my Chevy isn't from a CA assembly plant. Haggerty is so lame. We used to have four functioning US transit car builders. When at least one transit property placed an order every year there was work. During the drought after most streetcars were dumped, there wasn't enough work to keep the lights on in the factories let alone employ anyone. ACF closed, St Louis, P-S next, Budd bought by Germans and closed. Most of us remember the M-K fiasco--perhaps a noble effort, but a financial disaster. So, now there are foreign owned assembly plants here which get the work. As posts on this board regularly report, there are QC issues, cultural issues between ESL bosses and US workers, and other problems. Frankly, I much prefer a foreign owned company building cars here to a pseudo US company (think a common fruit) using essentially slave labor in some authoritarian dump to make products for us. End rant |
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