Wisconsin’s own Christian Schneider talks about the forces that drove GM to close the plant in Janesville, WI.
While plant closings are always complex issues, two main issues (both somewhat embarrassing to the Left) played a large role: the heavy burden of organized labor and misplaced government intervention in the automotive marketplace.
As George Will wrote at the time, by 2005, GM had essentially become a health-care company that also happened to make automobiles.