More Skeletons in the Closet for "Friendly" Toyota

[Z16monte]

Oh, come on now, theres gotta be room here for a UAW bashing session
Ed

[Uzzy]

Originally Posted by Z16monte

Oh, come on now, theres gotta be room here for a UAW bashing session
Ed

There is, that's why I'm here...


How in the **** can sweat shop workers bolt together better cars than the overpaid unionized workers over here?

[Uzzy]

Originally Posted by Nasty_SS

Hey Motor Trend .....you Going To To Do A Story On This?????
Your Buddies Arent As Great As U Like To Print.....

I've never seen Motor trend as Toyota loving. they like toyota when they're good, but they don't gush over them. I've always seen Motor Trend as having quite a GM slant to them as times and obviously just gushing over BMW as much as possible.

[usa1]

If this makes the mainstream media, people will run to Toyota's defense and find examples of where GM and Ford do the same, or did 30 years ago, to make Toyota look better.

Mark

[Butz]

* Toyota linked to human trafficking and sweatshop abuse: Toyota's much admired "Just in Time" auto parts supply chain is riddled with sweatshop abuse, including the trafficking of foreign guest workers, mostly from China and Vietnam to Japan, who are 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.

No wonder they can manage to build cars in Japan and make profit out of them. I was under the impression the employed Japanese workers, I'm sure they do, but they sure make up for that by employing under paid immigrants.

Even more reasons to hate them.

[ericmvest]

Japan has a history of being Nationalist to the point of being cruel to foreigners. The labor practices during the construction of the Burma Thailand Railroad, the Bataan Death March, experiments on POW's, treatment of foreign women during WWII, etc. The Japanese are reluctant to admit and apologize for their past poor behavior.

[D C]

Is this really a surprise to anyone?

[skylark68]

Next thing we know we'll hear that Toyota has been forcing young girls into being "comfort women."

I forwarded this article to a bunch of people that are considering a new economy car.

[joemac]

Originally Posted by Z16monte

Oh, come on now, theres gotta be room here for a UAW bashing session
Ed

What's to bash? At a unionized work place such atrocities would never happen. In the US we work and have standard 40 hour work weeks, employee rights, and workplace safety standards, of which unions demanded and brought into the work place. Many here are likely unaware of the thousands of people who lost their lives in this country in the pre unionization era where you had scenarios as documented in the article right here in the US.

My question is that the going theme here is that in a down market the unionized employees should give away everything, all their pay, all their benefits to "help" the company. Well what happens when times are good is the favor returned? Toyota had a annual profit of what $13 billion in 2007? Where's the return favor? Working someone to death, literally.

[Saturn69]

I guess it would be better to buy a Mexico-built Chevy than ANY kind of Toyota since buying the Toyota would reward this abhorrent behavior.

[ByTheLake]

Originally Posted by FenwickHockey65

Some parts of this are reposts...

Thanks for that "value add" ... there's always a Repost Police in every thread. The article is dated June 18, so it's not as if it's stale.

I'm wondering if this article will get any real traction outside of theautochannel.com?

[tholland]

Originally Posted by I-Love-Pontiac

How much you want to bet the media wont pick up on this? But at the same time they will all jump on the fact that stupid GM's sales are down because they only make gas guzzlers.

... or they will post stories like this one ... http://ca.pfinance.yahoo.com/ca_fina...ble-companies/

Someone needs to send the Reputation Institute and Forbes a copy of the NLC report.

[Saturn69]

Originally Posted by ByTheLake

Thanks for that "value add" ... there's always a Repost Police in every thread. The article is dated June 18, so it's not as if it's stale.

I'm wondering if this article will get any real traction outside of theautochannel.com?

Thank you....instead of posting something of value to the thread, let's post an "I want acknowledged for my prior post on this subject that didn't get the link to the front page", post. Repost Police. I may borrow that.

[Saturn69]

Originally Posted by tholland

... or they will post stories like this one ... http://ca.pfinance.yahoo.com/ca_fina...ble-companies/

Someone needs to send Forbes a copy of the NLC report.

I just sent it to MSNBC.

[tholland]

Originally Posted by Saturn69

I just sent it to MSNBC.

Nice!

I just don't get how a company with these practices can be the world's most reputable company.