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Capra, the union representa-
tive for the workers in Harley's
Kansas City plant, agrees with
the President's claims that
Harley-Davidson is using the
tariffs as an excuse to offshore
manufacturing, something they
allege the Motor Company has
been planning for years. "What
Harley-Davidson announced
was a slap in the face for
American workers all across the
country here. And the great icon
of Harley-Davidson… moving
overseas," said Capra. "This
is something that was just an
excuse. They have been going
overseas for some time. They've
been in India. They've been in
Brazil. And then now they have a
plant in Thailand."
When asked whether or not
it could simply be considered
a smart economic move by
Harley-Davidson to supply its
growing markets, Capra offered:
"People might think this is a
smart economic move, but how
many more manufacturing plants
are going to be moving over?
We need to do something with
the tariffs and we have to. We
have to have a sit-down, and we
have to have discussions over
the tariff attacks on both sides.
But we have companies that will
take. And we'll lose more jobs
here in the United States. It's
going to cause the economic
crash that obviously will be com-
ing before long."
Jean Turner
Polaris is now
talking about
building Indian
motorcycles in
Poland.
