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Companies and individuals do not make decisions based on posturing or their pet peeves. If a company has not outsourced a plant already for cost savings there are reasons for still keeping that operation in the US.

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Are you aware of the cost implications that may exist by them keeping the plants here?

Maybe that article linked would help you understand the structural cost implications that are proposed.

If labor costs go up 40%, but only in the US factories, I don't see how that doesn't lead to more parts & assembly in Mexico, Canada, China, etc.

The corporate counter-offer is 20%. Clearly they’re fine still employing a US workforce with double digit employment cost inflation - over four years.

It's beyond wishful thinking to assume that 46% increase will not motivate Ford to seek cost savings by moving factories offshore. The motivation:action tuple in this regard has been established for decades.

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