Once again, a major corporation — this time Toyota — is threatening to cut thousands of jobs in the name of ‘competitiveness.’
Don’t let banks and corporations get away with a “jobless recovery” that restores profits and bonuses, but leaves workers behind. A real recovery puts workers and communities first, providing good jobs, affordable housing, retirement security and health care for all.
As part of the complicated auto industry bankruptcy process, Toyota is considering shutting down its only unionized workforce, the highly efficient partnership with GM called “New United Motor Manufacturing Inc.” (NUMMI) in Fremont California. Shutting down the plant would cost 4,500 good autoworker jobs, not to mention tens of thousands at dependent companies.
New United Motor Manufacturing Inc (NUMMI) is a partnership between Toyota and General Motors. According to outside evaluators, the vehicles produced at the unionized NUMMI plant had fewer problems than those produced at other Toyota plants. NUMMI was the 7th most efficient car making plant in the US, and better than any of Toyota’s car assembly plants in the US. The only Toyota-related facility in the US with a collective bargaining agreement, labor
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