What is your source for GM's
What is your source for GM's US employment number? That would be handy to have. I find it very had to get that GM number with the Canadian and Mexican employees not included. According to every Toyota Press release "...we’ve built more than 30 million cars and trucks in North America, where we operate 14 manufacturing plants (10 in the U.S.) and directly employ more than 44,000 people (more than 34,000 in the U.S.)" Those numbers don't include dealership and marketing related jobs related to Toyota.
- The car in the story here, and most of the US-market cars Toyota produces in volume, are designed at Toyota's California design center. Toyota also has design in Michigan. The design chiefs of all of Toyota's top vehicles are American (Such as Mike Sweers the Tacoma design chief). The majority of TMS's white collar jobs are in Plano Texas. Having moved there from California. Plano and the other headquarters employ 4,000 people in America in white collar jobs. In-sourcing is a positive thing for the US, just as outsourcing is bad. No?