Honda's plant in Marysville good for America worker says

Lori Dennis is a team leader for Honda in Marysville, where her job is making instrument panels for Accords and Acuras. She thinks her job is as American as those at Ford or General Motors.

We are definitely an American plant. Many of our suppliers are American suppliers. Most of our parts are made here in the United States, and the workers in this plant are red-blooded, hard-working, determined American people.

It's a Japanese-based company, obviously, but the profits also are with the communities that our American workers come from. We earn a living, and we put back into our communities the money that we make from this company.

I think that customers are looking for a quality vehicle at a reasonable price, regardless of whether it's a union or a nonunion. I don't think that's necessarily as important to a consumer as the product that they're going to get. And with Honda they are getting that. They're getting a high-quality car at a reasonable price.

Our community has grown exceedingly since Honda was built here in Marysville . . . and not just Marysville, the other communities also -- Springfield, Urbana, Marion. Honda draws many of its employees from probably within a 60-mile radius, so that obviously helps the economy in those communities.