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Toyota Workers at Critical Engine Plant Launch UAW Union Drive
Labor Notes (official union press releases) ^ | March 06, 2024 | Luis Feliz Leon

Posted on 03/09/2024 8:42:21 AM PST by Salman

Auto workers at a Toyota engine plant in Troy, Missouri, have signed up 30 percent of their 1,000 co-workers to join the United Auto Workers (UAW)—a first at Toyota, the world’s largest automaker, on the heels of the union’s announcements of organizing campaigns at Volkswagen, Hyundai, and Mercedes-Benz.

Workers at the plant just outside St. Louis build 2.6 million cylinder heads per year. Should they stop building them, it would cut off supplies for all of the company’s engine plants in North America. Toyota is still working to build up its supply of chips and other inventory, following pandemic lockdowns and global supply-chain snarls.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: uaw; unions
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1 posted on 03/09/2024 8:42:21 AM PST by Salman
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To: Salman
Toyota doesn't need to build their motors in the USA. Troy, Missouri may have 1000 more unemployed people soon.
2 posted on 03/09/2024 8:45:49 AM PST by Poser (Cogito ergo Spam - I think, therefore I ham)
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To: Salman

Go ahead..vote Union and let the plant fail and move.


3 posted on 03/09/2024 8:45:57 AM PST by vetvetdoug
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To: Salman

Read the article and you can see why they want a union.

It reminds me of someone who worked at a plant in Mississippi.

They got one week off each year at the 4th of July. The rest of the year was work.

This situation sounds similar: if you don’t treat your employees well bad things can happen.


4 posted on 03/09/2024 8:47:15 AM PST by packagingguy
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To: packagingguy

Toyota in Japan is a union shop.


5 posted on 03/09/2024 8:49:44 AM PST by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: Salman

Toyota treats their employees really well. Ask those workers if they want to be in the couches of people who will sell them out to their leftists masters in DC.


6 posted on 03/09/2024 8:49:59 AM PST by McGavin999 ( A sense of humor is a sign of intelligence, leftists have no sense of humor, therefore……)
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To: Salman

Fire them all.


7 posted on 03/09/2024 8:53:01 AM PST by TheGunny
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they dont give up, do they. When it comes to the actual vote, UAW will get smoked again....


8 posted on 03/09/2024 8:57:08 AM PST by basalt (qb's)
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To: vetvetdoug

The quality of a Toyota will decline if they join the UAW.


9 posted on 03/09/2024 8:59:04 AM PST by chopperk (s to )
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“Toyota in Japan is a union shop.”

When did they last strike?

Trick question, never. If no strikes, then not a union.


10 posted on 03/09/2024 9:04:40 AM PST by BobL (Trump gets my vote, even if I have to write him in; Millions of others will do the same)
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To: basalt

“they dont give up, do they. When it comes to the actual vote, UAW will get smoked again....”

Agree, the Japanese are FAR SMARTER regarding the hiring of their workers than the US companies. And the workers they hire, at least a majority of them, will not want to have to move to Mexico and take an 80% pay cut to keep doing the same work.


11 posted on 03/09/2024 9:06:20 AM PST by BobL (Trump gets my vote, even if I have to write him in; Millions of others will do the same)
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To: Salman

“We want to close down!”


12 posted on 03/09/2024 9:11:31 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer” )
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Oh Boy, Toyota gets to take orders from high school graduate Shaun Fein, all around half wit Oyrish gangster.

Should improve cylinder head quality straight up!


13 posted on 03/09/2024 9:21:05 AM PST by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: packagingguy

> This situation sounds similar: if you don’t treat your employees well bad things can happen. <

Bingo. There are greedy unions. But there are also greedy companies.


14 posted on 03/09/2024 9:21:08 AM PST by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: packagingguy

Read the article...?

I’d consider the source.

Note to the rank-and-file: Don’t do anything rash. Wait til after the election.


15 posted on 03/09/2024 9:29:43 AM PST by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: Leaning Right

The difference is that greedy unions don’t create jobs, do they?


16 posted on 03/09/2024 9:30:37 AM PST by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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Hold the line, Toyota. Not one inch to these thuggish communists.


17 posted on 03/09/2024 9:34:13 AM PST by Frank Drebin (And don't ever let me catch you guys in America!)
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To: BobL

Not all the time. I’m in a union at a cooperative. We have a no strike clause in our contract. All the unions here do. Public safety overrides strikes.


18 posted on 03/09/2024 9:42:53 AM PST by vpintheak (Sometimes you’re the windshield, sometimes you’re the bug. )
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To: vpintheak

That ain’t the kind of union that works in the auto industry...in the US, but yes, even the Soviet Union had labor unions, in name, that is.


19 posted on 03/09/2024 9:44:24 AM PST by BobL (Trump gets my vote, even if I have to write him in; Millions of others will do the same)
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To: Frank Drebin

Exactly, this should be the place where State Legislatures should make reasonable rules for business conduct. Like proper procedures for exposure to silica and metal filings. When the combustion engine is outlawed, only the rich will have personal transportation.

Speaking to workers on gas and diesel powered vehicles and parts, you are not going to have jobs soon, why hasten their demise?


20 posted on 03/09/2024 9:45:11 AM PST by Glad2bnuts (“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: We should have set up ambushes...paraphrased)
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