Big Three automaker Stellantis is making a number of US moves in response to the new Trump administration and its focus on building products in America. To that end, Stellantis said it would build a new midsize pickup truck at the recently shuttered Belvidere, Ill., assembly plant. Stellantis previously ended production at Belvidere for the Jeep Cherokee SUV, angering UAW representatives and workers. Now Stellantis said it will return approximately 1,500 UAW members to work, a reversal of the move by former CEO Carlos Tavares, who resigned in early December.
Finally some good news for the American blue collar worker and it took Trump to do it. I can only begin to imagine the anger Pritzker feels within himself over this and hope he and the union don’t align themselves in a manner to get involved and mess things up.
debtsor
1 year ago
We’ll see. Stellantis has more unsold inventory than any other car company. They can’t sell the cars they have but they’re going to retool Belvideere to build a new mid-size pick up? LOL
The Railroader
1 year ago
So President Trump accomplishes in two days what JB the Hutt couldn’t get done in months?
Trump hasn’t gotten anything yet, at least as it pertains to Stellantis manufacturing vehicles in Illinois. The promise from Stellantis is 2 years out. There aren’t many details on the mid-size pick-up truck, which doesn’t even exist yet, that is to be built there. A lot will happen in the next 2 years in the auto industry world-wide and most of that is not good. I’ll be surprised if anything ever gets built in Belvidere again. I remember in Trump’s first term he was at the groundbreaking ceremony in Wisconsin for Foxconn. Trump hailed that as the 8th wonder of… Read more »
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
Finally some good news for the American blue collar worker and it took Trump to do it. I can only begin to imagine the anger Pritzker feels within himself over this and hope he and the union don’t align themselves in a manner to get involved and mess things up.
We’ll see. Stellantis has more unsold inventory than any other car company. They can’t sell the cars they have but they’re going to retool Belvideere to build a new mid-size pick up? LOL
So President Trump accomplishes in two days what JB the Hutt couldn’t get done in months?
#Winning
#PritzkerSucks
Alternative headline: Trump gets what Pritzker promised but failed to deliver.
Trump hasn’t gotten anything yet, at least as it pertains to Stellantis manufacturing vehicles in Illinois. The promise from Stellantis is 2 years out. There aren’t many details on the mid-size pick-up truck, which doesn’t even exist yet, that is to be built there. A lot will happen in the next 2 years in the auto industry world-wide and most of that is not good. I’ll be surprised if anything ever gets built in Belvidere again. I remember in Trump’s first term he was at the groundbreaking ceremony in Wisconsin for Foxconn. Trump hailed that as the 8th wonder of… Read more »