Toyota Will Shut Down All Of Its North American Factories Due To Shortages In Japan

Business Insider ^ | 04/04/2011 | Gus Lubin

[SeekAndFind]

Toyota just announced it will shut down all of its North American factories due to shortages of parts from Japan.

This is a temporary shutdown, which will affect about 25,000 workers. The length of the shutdown is unknown and depends on how fast Japanese parts factories can get back in operation, spokesman Mike Gross told the AP.

Toyota gets about 15 percent of its parts from Japan.

Last month GM's Shreveport plant was shutdown temporarily due to troubles in Japan.

[bfree]

When they start up again, I’ll probably buy one of their trucks. obami and his regime blckmailed them with the fake brake issue and the best part, obami’s crowd of idiots was once again WRONG.
The big thing to me is to buy a car or truck NOT made by the other extortionist outfit, the UAW.

[BobL]

“Wouldn’t make sense to manufacture the parts in the US if they are used here? “

You didn’t read the article. 85% of their parts are made in the US. It’s the other 15%, the ones that require more than a THIRD GRADE education, that still have to be made in Japan (even though much more expensive there).

They have tried their best to move as much production as possible to here, but the teachers’ unions will not let them send the rest.

[RummyChick]

And so the real economic impact starts to begin...as many here said only the Japanese would be effected.

As I have said from the very beginning...the world wide effect will be tremendous ..will trickle down..and spiral on to other sectors.

[Cheburashka]

Wouldn’t make sense to manufacture the parts in the US if they are used here? Japan will never make up what they have lost. Sounds logical to me, from a business stand point.....just sayin.

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Obviously Toyota disagrees.

[Cheburashka]

So the profits go back to Japan while Americans with proper slave mentality cheer Toyota for making jobs

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The Japanese know how to keep the UAW away from their assembly lines. If you want prosperity to return to America, fight Big Labor, don't complain about those who have refused to knuckle under to it in their American factories.

[Last Dakotan]

The big thing to me is to buy a car or truck NOT made by the other extortionist outfit, the UAW.

I was hoping that when GM was being spun apart, Saturn, or some other division would eventually become a non-union company. There was no way the UAW would allow an American owned company to be non-union.