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Originally Posted by stormwatcher
The National Labor Committee is a socialist organization and union labor front group that is 100% hostile to American companies.
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HEY, wait a minute, wait just a cotton pickin' minute.
You are badly informed.
Lets measure that by using an organization that is maintaining a death watch on GM and Ford and overall certainly can be characterized as at least friendly to Toyota.
That would be none other than "
The Truth About Cars" which actually took the time to call them and although you can tell that its killing'em to report on it, noted that they receive less than 15% of their monies from all union sources combined.
Here is their lead in to their podcast on it - you can also listen to his phone call to the author of the report.
http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/nat...er-sweatshops/
National Labor Committee Alleges Toyota Supplier Sweatshops
By Robert Farago
June 20, 2008 -
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First of all, the National Labor Committee says that less than 15 percent of its money comes from labor unions.
So this is not a United Auto Workers' front organization.
Second, in a phone call [below] Director Charles Kernaghan was clear that Toyota's Japanese factories adhere to the country's labor laws (even though you may be surprised to learn that ToMoCo's been on a two-tier wage system for decades).
Kernaghan's beef is with the automaker's suppliers.
"Toyota's much admired 'Just in Time' auto parts supply chain is riddled with sweatshop abuse," he insists.
"Including the trafficking of foreign guest workers, mostly from China and Vietnam to Japan.
They're stripped of their passports and often forced to work including at subcontract plants supplying Toyota 16 hours a day, seven days a week, while being paid less than half the legal minimum wage.
Guest workers who complain about abusive conditions are deported."
The organization's report is low on stats, big on anecdotes and focused on pious Prius celebs.<BS>
And yet, it's a point we've brought up before.
International automakers' and their customers' willingness to turn a blind eye to their suppliers' working conditions is a black eye for the business albeit one cleverly covered by makeup.
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They (NLC) are not hostile to American firms - Toyota is not an American firm as an example.
Further more, they only are concerned with one thing - improving sweatshop labor conditions - regardless of who, what, where, and why.
Is that something you personally support or disagree with ????
Here are three links from the other end - of audio conversations with the author.
You can listen to the conversation between TTAC and NLC from either end - to confirm the accuracy of both.
Press Coverage
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Toyota and the Auto Industry's Race to the Bottom on Grit TV with Laura Flanders
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NLC Director Charles Kernaghan on "Building Bridges," WBAI-New York (Audio)
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NLC Director Charles Kernaghan on theTruthAboutCars.com (Audio)