On July 21, thousands of BMW employees in California, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and the United Kingdom stood together in solidarity to protest BMW’s plans to outsource good, middle-class jobs at its parts distribution center in Ontario, Calif.
BMW has announced it plans to fire nearly 100 Ontario employees at the end of August and immediately re-open the facility the very next day with an outsourced, inexperienced work force.
BMW received over $3.6 billion in secret low-interest loans during the 2008-2009 U.S. taxpayer bailout.