Being In The Eu Isn't So Good For Volkswagen Workers.

[webbo3]

Obviously cheaper labour is preferred to EU workers.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1185515/eu-news-latest-volkswagen-turkey-factory-brexit

https://currently.us/brussels-reacts-in-fury-as-germanys-volkswagen-shuns-europe-and-opts-for-cheaper-turkey-world-news/

[Hopkirk]

Perhaps once we are out, they'll consider building a factory here.

[cassa333]

Market forces win every time.

[Old_Geezer]

Maybe, if we are foolish enough to officially be in the customs union.

[jno]

same here, Dyson praises Brexit then shoots off to Malaysia to get cheaper workers.

[cassa333]

Brexit doesn’t automatically make UK workers cheaper than the less developed countries. We are never going to be able to compete on that scale.

But I think it has something to do with how much we are prepared to pay for our goods. British made goods, in the old days of my youth, were more expensive and less well made. Shoddy was the way to describe a lot of British made goods.

That’s why we fell in love with cheaper and often more robust foreign imports.

Now of course we have lost our ability to manufacture a lot of things as we could not compete economically. Low wages to make cheap goods. No we can’t have low wages.

[jourdain2]

Germany has a long history of Turkish immigration to fill jobs. Certainly in the 1960s/70s there were many, many Turks around. So there are links which have brought this about.
Considering that the EU has 'bribed - oops, subsidised' firms to set up new plants in what they see as deprived areas of the EU instead of building them here, it is a rather neat case of 'hoist with your own petard', I think.