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Offline thundley4

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Calif. to get dose of auto anguish ( Oh what a feeling, Toyota !!!)
« on: September 12, 2009, 08:26:06 PM »
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Closure could erase 40,000 jobs in state and eliminate Toyota's only UAW plant
Toyota's decision to close its 25-year-old California factory where UAW workers build Corolla cars and Tacoma pickups has delivered a seismic, Detroit-like jolt to the once-invincible Silicon Valley economy.
The Japanese automaker's first plant closing in North America will add to California's swelling unemployment rolls, and perhaps, help the Golden State better empathize with the industry that it has persistently challenged with regulatory requirements.
The closure also will eliminate Toyota's only UAW-represented workforce.
California has now lost 580,000 manufacturing jobs -- a quarter of its total -- since 2001. NUMMI's closure next March could erase about 40,000 more.
"People are starting to pay attention," said Gino DiCaro, spokesman for the California Manufacturers and Technology Association.
Toyota's decision followed GM's withdrawal from the partnership, which eliminated about 20% of NUMMI's production.
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Re: Calif. to get dose of auto anguish ( Oh what a feeling, Toyota !!!)
« Reply #1 on: September 12, 2009, 08:35:24 PM »
I love my Camry more now.
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Re: Calif. to get dose of auto anguish ( Oh what a feeling, Toyota !!!)
« Reply #2 on: September 12, 2009, 08:43:25 PM »
Yup, this recession is all but over, we are in the recovery period now  :whatever:

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Re: Calif. to get dose of auto anguish ( Oh what a feeling, Toyota !!!)
« Reply #3 on: September 12, 2009, 09:40:17 PM »
With all the nuts in CA it would not surprise me that gasoline autos will be banned in the future. Toyota is probably tired of fooling with all the Env. kooks there also.
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Re: Calif. to get dose of auto anguish ( Oh what a feeling, Toyota !!!)
« Reply #4 on: September 13, 2009, 06:58:25 AM »
California and it's enviromentalism has for to long been a driving force in destroying the auto/truck/heavy equipment manufacturing industry. Maybe with some hard economic slaps up side their heads they'll come to their senses.......

Nawh, to much to expect from Kalifronicators.
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Re: Calif. to get dose of auto anguish ( Oh what a feeling, Toyota !!!)
« Reply #5 on: September 13, 2009, 08:17:25 AM »
Quote from: JohnnyReb on September 13, 2009, 06:58:25 AM
California and it's enviromentalism has for to long been a driving force in destroying the auto/truck/heavy equipment manufacturing industry. Maybe with some hard economic slaps up side their heads they'll come to their senses.......

Nawh, to much to expect from Kalifronicators.

But it's perfectly okay to see unsafe trucks belching black smoke up and down the 710 Freeway every day as they haul containers from the Port of Long Beach to the shipping terminals in Alhambra, San Gabriel, etc...

And 3 million illegals packed into unsmogged, unregistered, uninsured vehicles.   Yeah, that'll work.
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Re: Calif. to get dose of auto anguish ( Oh what a feeling, Toyota !!!)
« Reply #6 on: September 14, 2009, 10:13:30 AM »
Quote from: Lacarnut on September 12, 2009, 09:40:17 PM
With all the nuts in CA it would not surprise me that gasoline autos will be banned in the future. Toyota is probably tired of fooling with all the Env. kooks there also.

Not sure, I expect they will still orient their required specs around 'CA Legal,' it is probably more like an overhead issue with the taxes, bureaucracy, and work rules (Both State and Union, and including workers comp law) that just make the place untenable economically as a manufacturing site.  Of course there is the additional difficulty and cost of keeping the plant itself in compliance with CA environmental requirements too.
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Re: Calif. to get dose of auto anguish ( Oh what a feeling, Toyota !!!)
« Reply #7 on: September 14, 2009, 10:30:18 AM »
Quote from: DumbAss Tanker on September 14, 2009, 10:13:30 AM
Not sure, I expect they will still orient their required specs around 'CA Legal,' it is probably more like an overhead issue with the taxes, bureaucracy, and work rules (Both State and Union, and including workers comp law) that just make the place untenable economically as a manufacturing site.  Of course there is the additional difficulty and cost of keeping the plant itself in compliance with CA environmental requirements too.

Or they could just be slapping 0Bama in the face after Government Motors dropped out of their share of responsibilities for the plant.
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Re: Calif. to get dose of auto anguish ( Oh what a feeling, Toyota !!!)
« Reply #8 on: September 14, 2009, 01:04:37 PM »
Quote from: thundley4 on September 14, 2009, 10:30:18 AM
Or they could just be slapping 0Bama in the face after Government Motors dropped out of their share of responsibilities for the plant.

Government Motors, making friends around the globe!!

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FRANKFURT – As many as 10,500 Opel jobs in Europe could be cut, nearly half of them in Germany, the co-chief executive of Magna International Inc. said Monday, plans that are drawing criticism in countries where the automaker has operations.

Speaking to reporters in Frankfurt, Siegfried Wolf said part of his company's plan for General Motors Co.'s European unit envisions about 4,500 possible job cuts in Germany, where Adam Opel GmbH is based, under plans outlined in July.

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0Bama "I don't want to run a car company" .  Looks more like 0Bama can't run a car company.
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