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Subscribe to this threadToyota workers in Kentucky plant made more than UAW members last year
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Lithous @ Jan 31st 2007 6:04PM
"In many instances, Toyota and other large foreign automakers operating assembly plants in the U.S. pay their workers near-UAW wages in an effort to dissuade them from unionizing."
That is correct. A commenter came on here claiming to be a Toyota factory worker and stated that the UAW is trying hard to unionize them (I believe it). It is just insurance so they can keep the UAW and be able to pull out over night like the Colts from Baltimore. Well worth every penny to them for their long term.
How many Toyota assembly workers there will even think that their wages are as they are a lot to do with the UAW and therefore the American car companies (who have had to keep the unions around)? Let me guess... None. Yeah, keep believing that if GM and Ford weren't around that car assembly workers in the U.S. wouldn't be making (actually assembly wouldn't probably be here just like with DVD players and TVs) nearly the amount they do no matter for whom they work.