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Originally Posted by tholland
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Edmunds is be commended on this one in the strongest possible terms - best job of reporting this in unbiased fashion -
in the world - at least as we speak. Same for
The Auto Channel.
Shameful how many others are 'ducking' this important report - even just as a news item ala
Edmunds.
I believe
The Chicago Tribune had an acceptable, but too brief report somewhere although now I can't find it.
In the middle with strongly pulled punches ie mild spin for Toyota that shouldn't be there we have another ridiculously small group like
Daily Green ,
Autoblog and a few others.
Their coverage is flawed by part of their additional text BUT they too, deserve a positive recognition of a lesser sort; at least they had the balls and the decency to mention it.
Can you imagine what we would have here if this was about GM or Ford ???
Well, lets look at just some of Toyotas response - the initial spin if you will.
From the
Daily Green link;
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Yikes! Say it isn't so, Toyota!
"They're looking into this," says Wade Hoyt, a Toyota representative in New York.
"It's about overseas entities, so we're going to need a response from Japan."
Hoyt did add that the one charge against Toyota's U.S. operations-- that it uses a two-tier, low-wage model that amounts to a "race to the bottom" -- was a bit unfair since the United Auto Workers had agreed to it. < See, its always the UAW's fault. >
And the company may well claim, in its defense, that its overseas operations are forced to deal with the labor conditions that actually exist in the host countries.
Toyota's world headquarters has issued the following statement: "We are reviewing the lengthy report issued today by the National Labor Committee. As the well-being of our workforce and suppliers is one of our highest priorities, we are taking the allegations , < ie exposure of what we do and how we do it > seriously."
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