Or did Canada offer Toyota a bigger bribe?
It's not really that surpising.
Oh, Lord.
The unions sent another plant packing.
I hope that the "too illiterate" Americans have enough sense NOT to buy a Toyota vehicle.
...and on another thread; American teachers are mewling for a generous salary increase.
Too illiterate? Canada must have more literate illegal aliens.
someone ought to send a copy of that to every union school in the u.s.
bookmarking for a fascinating discussion
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.
Yep, they sure are smart.
At least Canada has an understandable organizing principle, it is called socialism. In America, we have no such organizing principle other than those in power selling out to the highest bidder. Which is to say the Japanese would rather invest in the certain path which Canada is heading down rather than the uncertain path which these two corrupt parties here in this country have chosen. At the rate that our federal government, our state governments, our local governments, as well as the American consumer is accumulating debt, who is to say who will own us in twenty years. My feeling is that the Japanese would rather invest capital in the certainty created by a conservative government and a conservative populace, but hey that ain't the US of A in the 21st century.
I was in a local small-town cafe yesterday, and overheard two redneck ladies discussing cockfighting. One said her husband was putting in two roosters for $4,000. She punched buttons on a calculator and announced to her friend: Top prize split between two winners winning 7 straight fights was to be 128 grand. She must have whipped out some quick math: $2000 x 2 to the seventh, divided by two. (Was the fighting to be held in neighboring Louisiana, where it is legal?)
Who said southern redneck American cockfighters are illiterate, and can't build blood-red Toyotas?
I hope they plan on selling their little cars in Canada, because when this gets out, they won't be selling many here.
this is such BS - we have displaced workers from industries that have been offshored to china and india - with college educations.
"... said Gerry Fedchun, president of the Automotive Parts Manufacturers' Association, whose members will see increased business with the new plant.""Follow the money" as they say.
Unfortunately, this is true. Fruehauf built a plant in Scott County, TN back in the mid-1980's in order to cut costs in building flatbed trailers. It had all the latest equipment in it.
Each flatbed trailer had about 40 manhours of labor in it when built in Indiana. The union workers in IN made about $12 per hour. The ones they hired in TN made about $6 per hour. The difference of about $240 cost per trailer (or about $500 retail) would have made Fruehauf competitive in that market again.
Unfortunately, the people in TN were never able to get the hours down to what they were in IN. Not even close. We are not just talking the startup phase. The plant was open for about 10-12 years after it was built, with several different owners trying their hand to reverse the losses. Last I read, it was closed down, never having made a profit.
NEA & UAW ride again!
"In Alabama, trainers had to use "pictorials" to teach some illiterate workers how to use high-tech plant equipment."
Finally a believable answer for my Mercedes ML320, built in Alabama.