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"The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people." Cesar Chavez |
:: Friday, September 24, 2004 ::
It's Not Easy Being Green by Jonathan Tasini, ProgressiveTrail.org
After conducting a campaign of terror against workers trying to unionize in Kentucky, Toyota was forced to post a notice saying it would respect the rights of workers to organize. One worker was fired for coughing too much at a mandatory anti-union company meeting—his personnel record noted that he was an “avid” United Auto Workers supporter. And, even though they work essentially a full-time day, up to 1,000 Toyota workers (about 15 percent) of the people who labor at the company’s non-union Kentucky assembly plant are temporary workers, paid a lot less than permanent full-time employees. And, to further underscore the hypocrisy, how do EMA and Eddie Bauer justify giving “green” cover to a company whose entire new U.S. production capacity is devoted to full-size pickup trucks (for example, the Tundra, with its all-new, more powerful V-8 engine)?------------------------------------------- posted 6:51 AM :: reference link ::
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