Bob Herbert on Toyota

Come visit Jackson County Alabama where there still is a large sign,"Sock Capital of the World," except that it moved to China and India. Visit Pittsburg PA and see the rusting steel mills. It happens and companies are not public welfare institutions.

Bob Wilson

 

Maybe if Herbert's media cohorts hadn't rushed to judgement trashing Toyota on questionable stories, they wouldn't have seen fit to shrink their U.S. operations.

The car business is bad all around, and companies have been shrinking jobs across the board. That's why unemployment is 10%. It's not just Toyota, Herbert.

 

The irony is that a lot of people in this country see infrastructure spending as "socialistic" , yet have no problem with the government pouring hundreds of billions into fighting wars halfway around the world
"in national defense." The question is, whose nation?

 

Could it have anything to do with GM bailing out of the partnership last year?

I once had a coworker who worked at that plant in the 70's building Chevy El Caminos (he told us appalling stories about the production methods). GM closed the plant, but Toyota came in and in partnership with GM, they reopened as Nummi.

So, you can paint Toyota as horrible, because they have now decided to close, or you can paint Toyota as good guys because they helped provide jobs for about 30 years after GM closed the plant the first time.

 

Well of course he's gonna grab the can of paint marked "horrible" that's all he does on this forum.
He should be screaming at his Gov Motors for bailing out on the plant

 

Yeah, but they already seem to have much more than they need already in terms of production capacity in the US. Does it make much business sense if they have a plant in Mississippi where they still haven't started production.

The economy is still crap and all the bad press may hurt Toyota sales for a little while, if not in the longer term.

NUMMI was the only unionized Toyota plant in the US.