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Toyota to build 100,000 vehicles per year in Ontario (Americans too illiterate to train)
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| July 3, 2005
| STEVE ERWIN
Posted on 07/03/2005 3:25:54 PM PDT by ItsJeff
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To: ItsJeff
Canadian workers are also $4 to $5 cheaper to employ partly thanks to the taxpayer-funded health-care system in Canada
So the Canadian taxpayers pay for Toyota's benefit pkg.
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posted on
07/03/2005 3:45:33 PM PDT
by
Liberty Valance
(The New York Times ~ Now 89% Fact Free!)
To: Spktyr
Remember, these plants are opening up in the middle of *nowhere* in these states. The population is decidedly rural and many people in the area drop out at the 6th grade or earlier. Bwhaahahaha. It's the cities where the schools have the largest dropout rates. Everyone and their brother are fleeing the large metroplexes and heading to suburbia and the country side.
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posted on
07/03/2005 3:45:45 PM PDT
by
ScreamingFist
(Peace through Ignorance)
To: andyandval
bookmarking for a fascinating discussion
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posted on
07/03/2005 3:45:51 PM PDT
by
andyandval
(Try flushing a book down the toilet....get back to me on how you did)
To: ItsJeff
Somehow I think this has more to do with not hiring blacks than illiterate rednecks. How many black workers are in Ontario, I bet not that many. As opposed to Mississippi and Alabama.
I know Toyota isnt opposed to blacks buying their cars, just building them.
To: ken21
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posted on
07/03/2005 3:46:56 PM PDT
by
txhurl
To: Liberty Valance
So the Canadian taxpayers pay for Toyota's benefit pkg.One way or another....
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posted on
07/03/2005 3:48:28 PM PDT
by
mewzilla
(Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
To: Spktyr
And the teachers want a raise?
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posted on
07/03/2005 3:48:45 PM PDT
by
jocko12
To: mewzilla
He said Nissan and Honda have encountered difficulties getting new plants up to full production in recent years in Mississippi and Alabama due to an untrained - and often illiterate - workforce. In Alabama, trainers had to use "pictorials" to teach some illiterate workers how to use high-tech plant equipment."The educational level and the skill level of the people down there is so much lower than it is in Ontario," Fedchun said.
This should be embarrassing as well as sad.
If this doesn't conclusively illustrate a point, nothing will.
Substituting the intimidation and thuggery of "unionism" for the utility of a good education in the quest of a "living wage" is a strategically losing approach.
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posted on
07/03/2005 3:48:52 PM PDT
by
Publius6961
(The most abundant things in the universe are ignorance, stupidity and hydrogen)
To: Publius6961
To: sgtbono2002
I think that was the point of my question. I knew hte answer but wanted the rest of you to answer it.....
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posted on
07/03/2005 3:51:42 PM PDT
by
Conservatrix
("He who stands for nothing will fall for anything.")
To: sgtbono2002
Nothing sheds more light than injecting "racism" into every discussion.
< /sarcasm >
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posted on
07/03/2005 3:52:00 PM PDT
by
Publius6961
(The most abundant things in the universe are ignorance, stupidity and hydrogen)
To: mewzilla
Or did Canada offer Toyota a bigger bribe?
Of Course! The trade agreement Canada has with the U.S. which I am sure goes along with Toyota is that if you want to sell your cars here, you got to build them here!
Interestingly enough, the article never mentions one word about the CAW (Canadian Auto Workers Union) which WILL get their slimy fingers into the pot!
While I have no info to dispute the article's claim about more intelligent workers, I can offer information relevant to the work ethic of Canadians based on the experiences of one of our stamping plants in Kitchener Ontario.
That plant has horrendous union problems, horrendous absentee problems and is faced with the possibility of being either sold or shut down.
Workers there are making top dollar for that geographic location and have no incentive whatsoever to put in a full 40 hour work week let alone expect them to work weekends. As a result of the chronic absenteeism and lack of employees willing to work the necessary weekends in order to meet production standards, they actually have a staff of part time people who they call to work the necessary jobs on the weekends.
Believe me, if Toyota is getting into Canada minus the auto union, you can bet your paycheck that the CAW is going to drop down like a 500 Lb. monkey on their back in the not too distant future.
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posted on
07/03/2005 3:53:01 PM PDT
by
Hot Tabasco
(Too many idiots, too little time to deal with them all......)
To: sushiman
Why did companies go to the South in the first place? To save money! Why didn't the companies stay in the North where they would have found adequate and competent workers.
So, let them reap what they sow--don't blame the so-called "too illiterate."
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posted on
07/03/2005 3:53:27 PM PDT
by
GOPologist
("On some days you may feel like a dog; on other days you may feel like a hydrant!")
To: GOPologist
What the blowhard in the article didn't mention is that Toyota also just announced a few months ago that it will build a new plant in San Antonio, TX.
To: Conservatrix
Who is illiterate in the South?Perhaps the ones not replying?!
To: Liberty Valance
So the Canadian taxpayers pay for Toyota's benefit pkg.Depends on how you look at it. Toyota will pay a 1.9% payroll tax. Employers pay that tax , employees don't . Personal incomes over $20k and up pay to a max. of $600 a year.
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posted on
07/03/2005 3:54:15 PM PDT
by
Snowyman
To: Conservatrix
Well, you got one loser to take the bait.
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posted on
07/03/2005 3:55:01 PM PDT
by
Publius6961
(The most abundant things in the universe are ignorance, stupidity and hydrogen)
To: Hot Tabasco
one of our stamping plants in Kitchener Ontario. Budd Automotive?
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posted on
07/03/2005 3:56:16 PM PDT
by
kanawa
(Faith, Freedom, Family)
To: Spktyr
Then how has Toyota thrived in Kentucky, Saturn in Tennessee, and BMW in South Carolina?
}:-)4
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posted on
07/03/2005 4:00:00 PM PDT
by
Moose4
(Richmond, Virginia--commemorating 140 years of Yankee occupation.)
To: ItsJeff
Let me get this straight -- these vastly more intelligent people live in god-awful weather, with a much higher cost of living and they work for up to $5 less an hour. Seeing as how Hyundai is paying $24 an hr here -- that mean these "superbly intelligent" people are working in high tech jobs for less than $20/hour.
Yep, they sure are smart.
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posted on
07/03/2005 4:00:21 PM PDT
by
commish
(Freedom Tastes Sweetest to Those Who Have Fought to Preserve It)
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