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Toyota started in California at a union plant. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NUMMI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NUMMI saw it on asianometry.
by graphe 3y ago
Toyota started in California at a union plant. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NUMMI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NUMMI saw it on asianometry.
- s3p 3y agoNUMMI wasn't just Toyota, it was a collaboration between GM and Toyota. So this example isn't really representative of typical Japanese automaker presence in the country.
- alephnerd 3y agoAnd then they shut down and became a non-Union Tesla factory.
- Spooky23 3y agoThat was a joint venture, many years ago. They also chose to open their RAV-4 production facility in Alabama vs. Ontario, despite the fact that the literacy levels of Alabamians was lower to the extent that production documentation had to be converted to pictures, adding delays. Paying illiterates $17/hr is cheaper than paying union workers $28.
- graphe 3y agoWhat benefit does Toyota get for opening in Ontario? The article's union I mentioned didn't usually have more than a high school education.
- fennecbutt 3y agoAsianometery is fucking great and I hope he randomly comes across this one day; thank you for all your hard work, dude. You're a machine!