UAW blasts GM plan to sell Chinese-made cars in US - Yahoo! Maktoob News
The United Auto Workers union blasted General Motors Tuesday for considering selling Chinese-built Buick Envisions in the United States and vowed to try to kill the plan during ongoing contract negotiations. "After the sacrifices made by US taxpayers and the US workforce to make General Motors the profitable quality company it is today, UAW members are disappointed with the tone-deaf speculation that the Envision would be imported from China," said... GM spokesman Nick Richards said reports about importing the Envision, a compact sport utility vehicle GM put on sale in China in 2014, are "speculative. "We have not announced the Buick Envision for any markets other than China, where it has been extremely successful to date," he told AFP. GM also declined to comment on reports that in 2016 it would shift production of the Buick Verano sedan from Michigan to China. production of the Buick Regal from Canada to either China or Europe. Buick is one of GM's most popular brands in China and the automaker sell roughly four Buicks in China for every Buick it sells in North America. Source: en-maktoob.news.yahoo.com
