Toyota: Not Everything Is Rosy

Toyota: Not Everything Is Rosy

A group of Kentucky community activists, including labor and church leaders, are gathering outside Toyota's biggest U.S. assembly plant today to deliver recommendations to management, including limits on the use of lower-paid temporary workers, to improve working conditions at the factory, according to the Detroit News.

The appearance by the group, Kentucky Workers’ Rights Board, will be followed by a news conference. The United Auto Workers union is trying to organize foreign-owned plants in the United States to offset the drop in its membership rolls at Big Three plants. Toyota is its prime target, the newspaper reports. However, the UAW has not succeeded in past efforts to organize Japanese-owned plants.

Michelle Krebs:  is Editor-in-Chief of AutoObserver.com. Follow @AutoObserver on Twitter.