Toyota Workers: Company Runs over Our Rights

by James Parks, AFL-CIO (reposted)

Mon, Jun 11, 2007 6:15PM

Monday, June 11, 2007 : Toyota touts its success and sells its cars with the slogan "Moving Forward." But current and former workers at Toyota's plant in Georgetown, Ky., say the company is "moving forward" with plans to cut pay and replace injured workers with temporary employees, who receive half the pay of full-time workers and few benefits.

“They’re [part-time workers] trying to get a job there,” Cornelia James, a 19-year Georgetown worker, told a workers’ rights board hearing in Georgetown yesterday.

Full-time employment is dangled in front of them like a carrot, and they’re told, any missteps and you’re out.

In a comment posted today on the AFL-CIO Now blog, “warrior,” an 18-year Toyota employee, shares similar experiences:

I am an 18-year “team” member at Toyota in Georgetown. A person who does not work here really has no idea what goes on….I’ve had many friends that have been hurt and have had surgeries only to come back on a different shift and a different area doing a job that was worse than the one they had been hurt on. Toyota will fight tooth and nail to make sure that any injury is not an OSHA recordable. For Toyota, image is everything.

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