Sergio Marchionne seems to be taking a different tactic in this year's UAW negotiations. Instead of threatening to take product out of North America and send it to China, the head of FCA is playing to the hearts and minds of the union membership, even going so far as to admit all automakers have screwed workers in the past.
"To be perfectly honest, we've all fucked with the UAW, right? We were threatened by them, so we took all the pickup trucks that we sell — and 90 percent of those pickup trucks are sold in this country, right — we took it away, and then we delocalized them" Marchionne told Automotive News' Larry P. Vellequette.
Marchionne believes he and UAW President Dennis Williams "share a view about the fact that, in some fashion, to the extent that we are successful in creating wealth out of these car companies, real wealth, then we should be able to distribute that," he said.
Bringing Mexican pickup production back to the United States would be a massive win for the UAW. Since March 2014, Ram has sold fewer than 30,000 pickups only once (January 2015).
Ram pickups are built at FCA's Warren Assembly Plant in Michigan and Saltillo Truck Assembly.
"What a wonderful idea, distributing cash when you have it," Marchionne said.
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