Topic: Harley: Kansas City among choices for relocation

[Damfino]

Well Dukie, looks like you'll have to leave Mypos and return home to KC. There'll be HOGs to build...

http://chicagobreakingbusiness.com/2010/08/harley-kansas-city-among-choices-for-relocation.html

I'm sure they'll probably never leave Milwaukee...they're just posing to get what they want. Which is cheaper workers.

[captaincrash80]

Wouldn't suprise me if the expanded here in KC, they've already got a plant

[Don R]

Wherever they can beat the workers a little for more profit. How many Harleys can one country sustain? Somebody needs to quit restoring them throw some away.

[tramp]

sometimes you just have to slow down production and lay off workers

[switchum]

They also talked about moving assembly lines to over seas, like India.  Labor is cheap and they can avoid tariff. 

http://www.jsonline.com/business/99073224.html

[Skunk Stripe]

Just imagine the backlash hd would get if they moved overseas. At least in the US. Rest of the world probably wouldnt care but I could potentially see that move slicing their sales in half here and driving prices for "US" produced hd through the roof.

[traveler]

No....the MOCO jsut can't sustain the union, which has turned into a blood thirsty shark.

~Joe

[Duke McDukiedook]

Woah there Joe, they are not the UAW, now THAT is truly a useless union.

[traveler]

okay, my bad....I thought they were UAW.....

~Joe

[69modelj]

I'm just curious here, how many here think the price of a new Harley Davidson would actually go DOWN if the union was eliminatied? And NO, I'm not siding one way or another, at least not publicly with this question, so take it however you like

[Skunk Stripe]

I suspect the price would stay the same. HD would just pocket the extra.

[Duke McDukiedook]

Yep, prices wouldn't go down a bit.