Toyota could start new U.S. plant in June 2011: report

[IDemo]

Source: Reuters

Toyota Motor Corp will start operating its new plant in Mississippi as early as June 2011, the Tokyo Shimbun newspaper said on Sunday, as the Japanese automaker works to regain trust in the United States.

Toyota, suffering from a drop in profits and a dent in its quality reputation after recalling over 8.5 million vehicles globally for accelerator and brake related problems, has a major presence as an employer in the United States.

It has established 10 manufacturing facilities in the United States and other operations that employ 33,400 people. Indirect employment, including dealers, accounts for another 160,700 jobs.

The state of Mississippi is suffering from an unemployment rate of 10.6 percent and the state government has been pressing Toyota to soon start the plant, which was originally set to commence operations in the second half of 2010, the Tokyo Shimbun reported.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6260DA20100307

[ingac70]

1. The Mississippi will make the Prius.....

will the parts be made with child labor in Myanmar like the Japanese Prius?

[Whoknows44]

2. Good news

But the one plant won't do much in terms of total unemployment. Even in the South. You need many many more plants to sustain a sizable population.

And the outsourcing boondoggle has only made the situation that much worse.

[Codeine]

5. Union-busting is good news?!

A UAW plant in California that builds Toyotas closes and one opens in an anti-union shithole and that's "good news"?
:puke:

[Whoknows44]

8. Well....

It's good news for the people of Mississippi. I'm not glad for your plant closing but I imagine many of the DU'ers from Mississippi are pretty stoked and don't appreciate the hate.

As I said, good for them, but it's just a drop in the bucket dude.

[madrchsod]

12. i guess they`ll be happy since they gave toyota the money to build the plant.

toyota did`t put up a dime to build that plant...

[Mithreal]

13. There is a perfectly good plant in CA.

A Progressive view is to support unions. Another Progressive view is not to pit states against one another in order to take jobs from one person to give to another. Sorry, not going to support that.

[pipoman]

15. California is known for their strong pro industry policies, huh?

:sarcasm:

[Mithreal]

24. ?

[pipoman]

25. What industry hasn't CA ran out of the state?

Through taxation, regulation, or because of the cost of living is unrealistic on industrial incomes..

[Mithreal]

26. You didn't really say that did you?

"What industry hasn't CA ran out of the state?
Through taxation, regulation, or because of the cost of living is unrealistic on industrial incomes.."

That is straight up conservative talking points except for maybe the CoL.

[pipoman]

29. You didn't answer...

what industry? Here, I'll answer, tons of industry has left CA, not for the unions, but the cost of doing business in CA. There is nothing that urban liberals would like to leave the consciousness of Americans more than the legacy of the labor party, back when being liberal meant defense of labor not destruction.

[Mithreal]

30. I think we are experiencing a failure to communicate.

I agree with your sentiment, if not the way you are phrasing it. It's either how you are presenting or how I am reading.

Don't know how else to respond at this point.

[pipoman]

17. Toyota didn't bust the unions,

our elected officials did when they sold US jobs to 3rd world countries with trade agreements that effectively dismantled US unions collective bargaining ability....has nothing to do with Toyota, we are lucky that they have decided to pay US workers instead of some cheaper workers.

[madokie]

18. Only to a republicon can it be

[Mithreal]

27. Plenty of conservadems have it in for unions too.

[Proletariatprincess]

3. Mississippi is one of the most virulently anti union states in the country.

The one union Toyota plant in California is closing.

[Codeine]

4. They're going full speed ahead with this one.

Nothing can stop them! Nobody can put the brakes on this plan!

[IDemo]

6. It'll be a runaway success!

[ShockediSay]

33. Building death traps cheap !!

It's the Corporate American Way

[Historic NY]

7. Interesting since they are closing a plant in California..........

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/transportation/jan-june10/nummi_02-09.html

[Hawkeye-X]

9. UAW needs to get these workers unionized even if it's back-ass-wards Mississippi

n/t

[Rapier09]

10. Apparently they absolutely need their American Peons

Poor poor delusional Execs.

[madrchsod]

11. toyota dumping their best plant in america for cheap southern labor

and tens of millions in tax breaks....

"oh what a feeling" when toyota fucks america .......

[Mithreal]

14. Boeing does the same here and we give them more money, but

SC is so southern and always good to have conservative backing for contracts.

[pipoman]

16. Yea, that's it,

their decision doesn't have anything to do with US trade policy, huh? Say the policy agreed to by dems and pugs alike, NAFTA, which helped the finances of the Big 3 move to Mexico, and neutered the US unions at the same time....but that is gooood for America, huh?

[Mithreal]

28. Really confused me with that response,

might want to flesh your ideas out more.

I really doubt madrschod would disagree with your sentiment about our trade policies.

[WhiteTara]

19. is this a bribe to stop the investigation

into the failing brake problem?

[jody]

20. At least jobs in MS are not being outsourced from the US. n/t

[madmom]

21. Still won't drive/own one. Even if it were given to me.

[defendandprotect]

22. Heard a report the other day that woman who had her car problem "fixed"

found she still had the same acceleration problem when she next took car

out on the highway!!

Could it be that they really don't know what's causing this?

Or could it be more than one cause?

Or are they totally screwed up?

[pipoman]

31. Or could it be Audi II?

I haven't completely ruled that possibility out yet.

[Xenotime]

23. Toyota needs to stop building cars...

until they fix all their problems. They just don't get it, do they?

[47of74]

32. Good ol' Mississippi - a right to exploit state

[Happy Hippy]

34. California

.......a failed state.

I don't understand all of the South bashing at DU. I'm sure the working folks of Mississippi will be thankful for those jobs. Are the people of Mississippi somehow less deserving of jobs?