Reply #25: Well said

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Also, we have to look at what can be done to get these jobs back and why jobs have moved south. We know why Toyota has built plants in "right to work" states. But at the same time, why have the workers there refused to join the UAW? It's an even tougher sell when domestic companies are laying off so many.

It has everything to do with the threat of job losses in areas where they can ill afford to lose jobs, and the mistrust built for the UAW by Japanese management. The Transplants also suffer high absenteeism and difficulty in getting QUALIFIED workers at these plants, in spite of their best efforts to train the people working there. Which was one of the primary reasons Toyota chose Canada for their last assembly plant and not the deep South. And we will never know what the REAL compensation is for the CEO's of the Japanese and Korean transplants, having worked for Mitsubishi, Hitachi, and Sanyo in decades past and running into the wall of secrecy surrounding their inner workings.


45000 people applied for 2500 jobs at the new KIA Training center being built in Georgia, 45000. What does that tell you about the economy?

No one acknowledges that when the layoff's come the white collar middle management workers are always the fisrt to go in the Big Three, making it more difficult for the dealers in the field. But the continued beating down of the Unions will not stop until we get the Republicans OUT of the White House and Congress and re-instill protections for the American worker and middle class again.


Thanks for your contribution.