Report: Toyota to halve Japan vehicle output

[Warren Stupidity]

Source: Business Week

By TOMOKO A. HOSAKA

TOKYO

In yet another sign of Japanese automakers' deepening distress, Toyota Motor Corp. between February and April plans to make just half the number of vehicles it produced the previous year, a major newspaper reported Saturday.

Japan's top carmaker will slash production during the period to about 9,000 vehicles a day and may need to trim its full-time work force as a result, the Asahi Shimbun said without citing sources.

Japan's automakers have so far managed to avoid layoffs of regular employees by instead cutting nearly all of their temporary assembly line workers.

Read more: http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D95OQOQO2.htm

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Ruh-roh

[ogneopasno]

1. The great and wonderful Toyota? No way.

[lithiumbomb]

2. obviously making vehicles no one wants to buy

And they deserve to fail, everyone get fired, etc etc. If only they made fuel efficient cars. Oh wait...

[WriteDown]

6. Hilarious

:)

[joshcryer]

22. Haha, you guys crack me up.

:D

[notadmblnd]

3. maybe they should bring their workers pay down ot be more in line with....

the Chinese maybe? Obviously, their workers are overpaid.:sarcasm:

[pattmarty]

4. That doesn't look good for the world economy. Toyota is the................

............worlds largest car maker, to cut production in half from last year is fucking HUGE.

[bluecollarcharlie]

8. No, no I don't think so.

[Warren Stupidity]

14. What don't you think so?

Toyota is the largest auto manufacturer on the planet, surpassing GM in 2007. Or perhaps you think Toyota cutting domestic production in half for the next three months is 'not huge'?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automotive_industry

[bobd0]

5. I hope they close every U.S. auto plant so we can tell those southern senators

like Shelby, Corker, De Mint, McConnell, Chambliss and the rest to go fuck themselves the same way they told Detroit. :)

They played political payback with American jobs and lives. They need political payback too. I can't wait for them to ask for economic aid so they can get the same answer they gave Detroit. :D

[totodeinhere]

15. So you want to throw thousands of Toyota in the US employees out of work?

How nice of you. This whole mess is not the fault of the Toyota employees. They are just trying to make a living and support their families just like everyone else is.

[hendo]

16. I was about to say the same thing

only I wouldn't have been as nice about it.

[DainBramaged]

17. They can work at WalMart, I feel NO pain for them

They want to work for Foreign entities with NO labor contract or protections, too bad, hit the unemployment lines like the rest of America.


This reply brought to you by a pissed off member of the UAW.

[totodeinhere]

23. No, they don't want to work with no labor contracts.

The vast majority of the workers at these foreign owned auto plants want to join a union, but for various reasons including employer intimidation they haven't been able to. The workers at these plants are not the villains here, just like UAW members are not the villains.

You know, sometimes I am appalled by the cruelty and nastiness that I see at DU. I thought that we progressives were supposed to be the compassionate ones, not the ones who want to throw workers out on the street because they haven't been able to join a union.

[bobd0]

25. :) Precisely!

[bobd0]

24. I'm being as nice as those asshole Southern Senators.

They want to throw thousands of U.S. auto manufacturers out of work WHILE THEY SUBSIDIZE FOREIGN AUTO MANUFACTURERS WITH U.S. TAX DOLLARS.

Fuck them. If they want to play their union-busting, anti-American game then they need to get the same treatment in return.

Why do you think these assholes keep doing the same bullshit over and over again? NO ACCOUNTABILITY.

When all those U.S. taxpayer subsidized auto plants in the south close tell them there is NO BAILOUT FOR THEIR WORKERS EITHER.

:)

Accountability has a way of tempering one's future decisions. :D

[SoCalDem]

21. Those will be that LAST ones to close..

They are the linchpin in the plan to undermine what's left of the UAW..

Those plants got started with scads of State Tax money and sweetheart deals..and they have plenty of cheap and eager labor..

the cars made there do not have to be shipped across an ocean either..

[villager]

7. How do we use that excess Toyota mfg. capacity to make the rail cars we'll need?

n/t

[bluecollarcharlie]

9. Hey, it's okay.

Those workers will find other jobs. They will just have to adjust with the times. They can be retrained to do something else. They should just start building the cars that people want. You see, this is what happens when you use an outdated business model as your guide. Well, it's just as well. Their employees are all lazy, money grubbing overpaid wastrels. They should learn to do something else. They mean nothing, LET 'EM FAIL. They make crappy cars anyway.

Did miss any of the other lyin-ass bullshit the import apologists usually say about us?

[Auggie]

10. Watch them come roaring back with a great product

[DainBramaged]

18. Like what, a tree powered car?

[Auggie]

27. A plug-in

[EconomicLiberal]

11. Time to bring their wages in line with the Chinese. They are uncompetitive in the global market. n/t

[roamer65]

12. Demand is falling off a cliff right now. Toyota will soon be looking for Japanese gov't money.

Welcome to either The Great Recession or the Second Great Depression.

[Kolesar]

13. Demand in the US will be around 10 million, compared to the high of 17 million in 2007

I think it was 2007. The spin off effect of this is going to be bad.

[DainBramaged]

19. Who do you think sponsored their first ever 0% financing in this country?

[Skink]

20. You know Reagan let these guys in here...

with their non union scabs.

[dugaresa]

26. when people aren't making enough money to afford cars

and they don't have the security of income to enjoy the luxury of buying a new car every 2-3 years even if they don't need one....then automakers of every type will hurt.