The cooperators were gone; they had tried to create small industrial plants owned by those who did the work.
A second big plant owned by the city will not be ready until 1994.
The project, expected to cost $400 million, would create 1,500 jobs in a state that already has two other plants owned by foreign auto companies.
The concrete plant owned by Grissom fell victim to the road named for him.
The transplants have an advantage over plants owned by American companies because their work forces are generally younger and healthier, which keeps health-care costs down.
He takes over a shrinking union that has been unable to organize a plant solely owned by a foreign automaker.
There are considerable obstacles to organizing plants owned by foreign companies.
The union has struggled in retaining its traditional strength at plants owned by the major automakers.
The new act, however, allows averaging of the emissions of plants owned by the same utility.
It is a centre of zinc production and home to a plant owned by Nyrstar.