All of these strong leaders are committed to rebuilding the American manufacturing base and therefore the American middle class and they are doing it with major new investments and great new products in our American automotive facilities. And now with the financial turnaround of these companies, tens and tens of billions of dollars are being invested in the United States of America, tens and tens of thousands of good paying, community supporting jobs are being created and maintained, and work long outsourced from the USA is coming back to the USA!Īnd I want to express my appreciation to General Motors and Dan Ackerson, to Chrysler Fiat and Sergio Marchionne, and to Ford Motor Co., and to Bill Ford and Alan Mulally. President Obama made the right bet and all of us and really the whole United States won! Easily over a million jobs were saved. ![]() companies liquidate and have our jobs shipped outside of the United States. I am grateful to President Obama for facing up to a great amount of pressure and negative public opinion and deciding that he was going to bet on American companies and American workers even when so many others were unwilling to do so and were more than happy to have our U.S. I am very blessed and very grateful to be here with you as the recently elected president of the UAW. ![]() Today there is great cause for thanks and celebration. The following is the speech given by United Auto Workers president Bob King to the Automotive News World Congress in Detroit on January 12, 2011:
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