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:: Thursday, June 03, 2004 ::
UAW puts it all on line and comes up empty By Brett Clanton, The Detroit News
The pro-union forces say Toyota, despite a much-touted no-layoff policy, has been quietly cutting jobs in Georgetown for years to reduce costs.
Pete Gritton, vice president of administration and human resources for Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky, acknowledges that employment in Georgetown has fallen from a peak of 8,000 several years ago to 7,100 today, but only through attrition.
'I tell anybody and everybody that there is no job on this earth that is guaranteed,' Gritton said. 'Even the UAW contracts, they promise you a job for the period of the contract.' And at the end of the contract, jobs are back on the negotiating table, he said.
Yet without the UAW, Toyota workers would not have a fraction of what they have today, said Douglas Fraser, a professor of labor studies at Wayne State University and president of the UAW from 1977 to 1983.------------------------------------------- posted 6:29 AM :: reference link ::
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