Ohio Plant To Move Jobs To Japan

[OhioChick]

Source: AP

POSTED: 10:45 am EST February 27, 2008
UPDATED: 11:00 am EST February 27, 2008


MARYSVILLE, Ohio -- Honda Motor Co. plans to stop producing motorcycles in the United States next year and will transfer production to Japan, the automaker announced Wednesday.

Honda currently makes motorcycles at its plant in Marysville, Ohio, employing 450 workers.

Honda said there will be no layoffs when production ends in spring 2009. The workers will remain with the company, helping produce cars, trucks, engines and parts and filling other jobs at Honda's other operations in west-central Ohio, the company said.

The motorcycle plant opened in 1979 as Honda's first U.S. plant. Last year, it produced about 44,000 Gold Wing touring and VTX cruiser bikes.

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Soon, there will be no one left in OH "to vote."

[Demeter]

1. Japan Is Bringing Their Jobs Back Home--Time We Did the Same

Wonder if this was official government policy, or unofficial? To be sure, in Japan, it was governmentally decided!

[OhioChick]

3. "Japan Is Bringing Their Jobs Back Home--Time We Did the Same"

Damn Straight.

[ReformedChris]

2. Sounds like no layoffs in the article and its a reassignment, but we all know how that changes..

People are reassigned and then sent off on their merry way when the profits don't continue to surge. Very depressing that less things are being made in the US, even if it was a Japanese company sending the work back home.

[samplegirl]

4. Thats the truth

More sadness! :cry:

[rosetta627]

5. Thanks for NAFTA Billary!

:puke:

[femrap]

9. Just so you know....NAFTA

has to do with North American Trade....nothing to do with Japan our largest creditor. You know N. America, right? Mexico, US, Canada?

[asthmaticeog]

6. BIG disconnect between your headline and the content of the article.

"Honda said there will be no layoffs when production ends in spring 2009. The workers will remain with the company, helping produce cars, trucks, engines and parts and filling other jobs at Honda's other operations in west-central Ohio, the company said."

Doesn't exactly sound like 450 jobs are being cut at all. Which is cool - I live in Ohio, and it's for damn sure we could use to keep those jobs.

[cloudbase]

7. Actually, that's the headline from the news source.

Hell, they could have laid those people off.

[OhioChick]

8. Notice That the Headline Has Since Changed? n/t

[AngryOldDem]

10. So when do the alternative energy industries open in Ohio?

Remember...according to HRC in the debate, there will be a great demand for solar panels and windmills.

I have to wonder how long Honda plans to keep the rest of its operations in Ohio.