Toyota is completely unionized. Toyota considers their workers to be one of the reasons for their quality. More important, the executives knew about the pensio

Toyota is completely unionized. Toyota considers their workers to be one of the reasons for their quality. More important, the executives knew about the pension liabilities when they accepted the job. It's been part of their planning and their guidance all along. Blaming the workers when those plans failed is cowardly. Edit: German automakers are also highly unionized. It doesn't seem to prevent them from making quality cars either. It really seems to me that executives blaming the workers is a US and UK thing. In many business cultures, it just makes the executive seem incompetent.