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.

Posted by Michelle Krebs at 7:46 AM under News , Toyota | Comments (1) | digg this | Seed Newsvine

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I don't see any mention of church leaders in the Detroit News story. I also don't see why they would get involved. There better be a "good" reason. :shrug:

Posted by: SubyTrojan | August 29, 2007 at 10:37 AM

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