John Deere announces mass layoffs in Midwest amid production shift to Mexico
John Deere has announced another wave of layoffs Friday, telling around 610 production staff at plants in Illinois and Iowa that they will be out of a job by the end of the summer.
One of the bigger issues isn't so much that car is built in Mexico, the auxiliary parts suppliers also move to Mexico to make their parts cheaper.
So now you have a car that is assembled at a lower quality standard, at a factory that is usually newer and inexperienced, by a culture of people that don't generally don't aspire to do things correctly, with a bunch of parts made by suppliers that have the same issues but at a smaller scale which means the chances of excessive lack of quality are that much higher.
That is why the move to Mexico is usually such a poor choice. Plus, when you have a quality issue it's much harder to find and fix.
It's not a BMW or even a pontiac. It's like their pottery.