Anyone would like to comment on profits going to Japan? Please indulge yourself.

Yeah Xyunya but the last laugh is on the Toyota employees because they are paying these guys in Yen so … you know … what good are Yen when as we all know you can’t convert them to dollars to buy stuff here. You know.

I believe the only person who said it would go to Japan was the idiot, homoRetard.

mayer_ray_nagin, I know they have to drive all the way to Tokyo everyday to buy sushi

xyunya: and where do you think the american car company profits go? oh wait, americans don’t know how to make a profit on cars. well only from people like you who buy whatever **** they throw at you.

Wow… I must say that is genuinely nice of Toyota. Now if they could design something other than middle-of-the-pack looking cars that appeal to 40+ year olds I might actually get interested in their product.

jandrews90, please enlighten me on what is “the american car company profits”? Then we can discuss where they go.

When American car companies will have labor relationship like that of Toyota, Honda, Nissan the work force will not need unions and perhaps then they will have profits.

BTW, profits go to shareholder. I don’t know where company shareholders live, but if I want profits to stay in US I buy Toyota stock (I actually do own Honda stock not Toyota). Stocks of all major companies sold on NY exchange.

Are you guys that retarded? Yes, they pay workers in U.S dollars, low U.S dollars at that. Most of that money goes back to Japan, which is where toyota originates. It does not matter if you buy a toyota that you pay in U.S dollar dumb@$$’s. The dollar is worth more than the yen, which translates to more yen for the japs. What do you think the U.S pays china and all these other countires they’re in debt to?

Hey genius, how salaries that Toyota payed to its employees for the time they did not screw a single bolt find it way to Japan? Do you think those assembly guys would prefer union hacks to improve labor relationships? Basically, they are getting payed and their family are not dependent on soup lines.

This whole “all teh moneyz goes to JP lolz” talk is just stupid, Toyota is a internationaly publicly traded company, so anyone anywhere can get a piece of the action. Now if you really are worried that all your precious American money goes to Japan, then buy some stock and get some of that profit yourself.
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Stop whining.

LOL @ NON-UNION WORKERS GETTING BETTER TREATMENT THAN UNION WORKERS. Clearly unions have no place in this day and age.

While I’m no fan of unions, Toyota isn’t doing this purely out of the goodness of its heart. No company pays 2000 people to go and do community service for 3 months for no good reason.

Toyota’s doing this to ensure that the UAW stays out of their shop. Union workers don’t have to worry that much about their plants getting temporarily shuttered, the dues they pay go into paying them some money while their shop is shutdown. These Toyota workers wouldn’t have that luxury. You can be sure that if they shutdown their plant for 3 months not only would most of their workforce have to go find jobs elsewhere but the employees would be extremely demoralized and much more likely to take the UAW up on an offer to unionize their shop.

So, while these workers might not be UAW, the presence of the UAW has actually helped them out by affecting the way that the employer acted. If Toyota didn’t have to worry about the UAW moving in, they wouldn’t be so quick to pay these guys for 3 months.

So what you’re saying, Sigma, is that unions are not helpful, but the threat of unions is.

Wow , isn’t toyota such a nice company ?

That’s crap SIgma, Toyota are doing this so that Texans see Toyota supporting Americans during hard times, while the big three lay them off. This is some fine relationship-building and it shows that Toyota is thinking seriously long term when it comes to integrating itself into the US market.
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As far as profits and where they are going is concerned, at least when you work for a company that makes a profit, they can take care of you in the bad times, whereas loss-making companies will bin you as fast as they can.
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Its bizarre how so many working-class Americans are concerned with where the profits go. The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer; this is because profits from big companies are not being distributed to the workforce, they are being accumulated by the upper classes, who are also doing a very good job of minimising their tax liabilities so that the bare minimum goes back to the country.
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What does it matter which country’s upper class is getting the profits of your labour? Neither of them give a crap about the man with a screwdriver in his hand.

GotHandling, You just said almost exactly the same thing I did. You said it yourself in your last paragraph — Toyota doesn’t REALLY “give a crap about the man with a screwdriver”. They’re doing what they need to do FOR TOYOTA. The fact that it also happens to benefit their employees is just gravy.

“Relationship Building” and “Keeping the UAW at bay” the exact same thing. Toyota is doing this so that their employees and the community feel that they have their best interest at heart. Because, as long as they feel that way, they don’t need to considering unionizing. Toyota has been fighting extremely hard to keep the UAW out, and it’s not always been an easy battle, it knows just the backlash that would occur if they did a layoff. It would be a prime opportunity for the UAW to swoop in. As long as Toyota is doing well, the UAW has no legs to stand on, but as soon as they start doing layoffs they lay the groundwork for their labor to unionize. Their Georgetown plant has come very close to joining the UAW very recently and there is a continuing active effort to organize. Within the past year the UAW has made VERY strong inroads into Toyota plants and Toyota is extremely conscientious of how every decision they make will effect the UAWs ability to get a better foothold. Something like temporarily shuttering a plant would be a HUGE opportunity for the UAW.

Toyota and Nissan should stop building trucks. There an embarassment to any red-blooded american.

Toyota cant sell these things cause they are CRAP! They need to seriously re-think this plant location. It is staffed by 50% + illegals with stolen SSN’s & ID’s. Take an inferior design, have a bunch of illegals build it and boom, you got a Tundra.

we need unions.
Toyota profits go 2 japan

iHussie should stop leaving comments. They’re an embarrassment to any red-blooded American.

Good one Beat!!!! Love the name drop, you like my name dont you? When ever you get to say it, you take every oppurtunity. Seems like someone has a crush hahahaha Get off the di*k buddy

Lets do the math.
Toyota pays $16.00 for 12 months(no lay off), thats $30,730.
At union plant pay is $28.00 you only need to work 6.857 months to make the same $30,730 a year that is not enough to buy decent house or jack *** where I live (SD, CA).
So who the hell is doing a favor to who here, the under paid workers at the Toyota plant. Ateast the union worker has the option to collect unemployment or get other employment to keep afloat during break, maybe use the time for education. Toyota employee will be too busy with broom learning to be loyal, because one mistake at $16/hr and the repo man will be coming.

Pretty optimistic if you think modifying your name is considered “name dropping.” Usually people “name drop” with the likes of Paris Hilton and Britney Spears. I guess you feel you are “in” with their crowd or something. Good for you. Even if you were Paris, herself, your comments here would still be an embarrassment to any red-blooded American.