Toyota Plant Allows UAW Organiser Access

The Truth About Cars ^ | December 29, 2009 | Cammy Corrigan

[MichiganConservative]

First, they sold the most amount of cars in the world, then, they started cost cutting and now, Toyota are taking another big step towards becoming GM. The Charleston Daily Mail reports that the managers of Toyota’s manufacturing plant in Buffalo, West Virginia have allowed workers to distribute union literature during breaks at the plant. There’d been grumblings about unionisation for some time. Last month, some Toyota employees, (with the backing of the UAW, naturally), filed a grievance with the National Labour Relations Board’s regional office in Cincinnati. They wanted to distribute union material but were stopped by Toyota managers. Jeff Moore, a Toyota vice president at the West Virginia plant, reversed that policy.

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[MichiganConservative]

Toyota becomes GM

[EagleUSA]

This is shocking. I would be much that this is the product of extortion.

[Gaffer]

Well, I guess TOYOTA is OFF my list of potentials, along with GM and Chrysler. I found my new truck yesterday — an F-150 STX.....really nice....GM, Chrysler SUCK IT (from a former Dodge Truck owner.....)

[cripplecreek]

D’oh!

[DennisR]

Just one question: “Why?”

[Truth29]

Will the workers be happy when Toyota decides to close the plant and relocate the production? Maybe they will; Obama will promise them someone else’s money to make sure they vote for the Obama socialists of America.

[Clintons Are White Trash]

The UAW won’t be happy until it puts every automaker out of business.

[Truth29]

Will the workers be happy when Toyota decides to close the plant and relocate the production? Maybe they will; Obama will promise them someone else’s money to make sure they vote for the Obama socialists of America.

[Frantzie]

Bad move. I will not buy a Toyota now.

[tacticalogic]

Hopefully, the citizens of Buffalo won’t like the prospect of being the next Detroit, and react accordingly.

[ThunderSleeps]

So long Toyota.

Anyone want to start a pool on how long it takes them to become just another second-rate car company?

[Revelation 911]

our small family machine shop had a location in Tenn......the crew grumbled about unionizing. Pop said "go right ahead, I'll close the shop"

needless to say, it never happened

[Eric in the Ozarks]

One complaining employee can start this process. Any attempt to block a union organizer from the property will result in a lot of trouble from the Department of Labor, among other agencies.

[ethics]

This Toyota Plant will be relocating to another non union location.

Toyota will not allow a union!!!!

[cripplecreek]

In my opinion, too many conservatives are wasting their time with a fantasy of destroying the unions when they would be far more effective getting them under control or weakening them.

Personally I think they would collapse under their own weight if they had to collect their own dues. The constitution says they can exist but it doesn’t say that the companies have to collect dues for them and I think this is a vulnerability that should be exploited.

If we force the unions to start passing the collection plate around on their own, I guarantee we’ll see infighting and fracturing begin almost immediately.

[doodad]

I guess they got salted.

[MichiganConservative]

The problem, as usual, is government intervention. Governments should not outlaw unions. They also should not enforce laws that are preferential to them.

I get back to that old line “let freedom reign”. Seems like that should be in a song.

[bmwcyle]

Show him the inside of the trunk.

[stevio]

They didn’t unionize yet, but I’m with you.

[AreaMan]

Ahh...a world without Union thugs:

[sniper63]

Whhheeeeeerrrrrreeeeeee’s Jimmmmmmmaaaaaahhhhh?

[Frantzie]

Toyo should just say that is they unionize the plant will be closed - in so many words. WV union scum.

[Bringbackthedraft]

Yeah, unionize, that will be Toyota’s death knell for sure.

[NonValueAdded]

Not sure they had any choice here ... manager might have thought it was better to allow it voluntarily than face the news of a gubermint sanction. Doesn’t mean the union will make it in.

[GeronL]

Well, pretty soon the workers could find themselves unionized without a vote.

[GeronL]

What Constitution says they can exist? You mean the right of free association?

I doubt they had these unions in mind really.

[relictele]

Anyone living/working in WV should look around them at the, er, wonderful results that unions have produced along with the fact that WV is not a right-to-work state.

‘Harlan County USA’ is a nice little piece of propaganda but real-world conditions belie its fuzzy little unions-are-the-salvation message.

[driftdiver]

Because they allowed the union to talk to their employees? Under this administration and attorney general you question why they made that move?

I’d wager most people working for Toyota hate unions just as much as most freepers.

[antiRepublicrat]

It’s their right to unionize, but if I were them I’d look at GM and wonder about my long-term job security under a union.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

Uh oh. The beginning of the end.

[ScottinVA]

Toyota, don’t let that cancer take hold. Stop it now.

[boycott]

Toyota should just close that plant and move it further south. Those thugs could just live off the land for all I care.

[ThunderSleeps]

We can only hope that Toyota’s workers are that smart and that well informed. That is, that they’ve seen what unions have done to, well, basically every industry they’ve made significant inroads into.

[piytar]

Toyota should let them distribute union literature.

And then close the facility the next day.

[Dryman]

My Father used to say (as a Union Insulator)...

Any time you pay someone what THEY think THEY are worth, You are paying too much.

Let ‘em Unionize. Then Close the Plant.

[VeniVidiVici]

Look for the union label.

[cripplecreek]

I doubt they had these unions in mind really.

Go ahead and doubt. Then doubt that the boy scouts, Elks club, Right to life, and NRA have a right to exist as well.

[Renkluaf]

These dopes want to cut their own throats, let them.