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Offline SirLoin

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« on: December 25, 2005, 06:18:38 AM »
Toyota Canada just gave the bone to it's employees in Alliston Ont recently.After the CAW canvassed their plant,Toyota promised better job security,benifits and weekends off.

After the CAW lost in a close vote and moved on elsewhere...Toyota announces it's new work schedule for line workers.

Monday to Thursday..9 hours
Friday....................... .8 hours
Saturday...................4 hours(madnatory)...asked to stay for 8


Shoulda signed your union cards dummies.
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« Reply #1 on: December 25, 2005, 06:40:37 AM »
I'd just quit.
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Offline Flit

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« Reply #2 on: December 25, 2005, 07:58:59 AM »
No OT in canada ?
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Offline SirLoin

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« Reply #3 on: December 25, 2005, 09:07:03 AM »
48 hours is the max an employer can make u work...8 hours too much imho.
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« Reply #4 on: December 25, 2005, 09:14:53 AM »
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48 hours is the max an employer can make u work...8 hours too much imho.


WOW...In missouri USA, there is absolutely no overtime limitations.  They can make me work 24 hours a day 7 days a week, if it were not for the union.  Anheuser Busch wrote that one:furious
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Offline Jackal1

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« Reply #5 on: December 25, 2005, 09:24:46 AM »
For banker`s hours you usualy have to become a banker. :)
Just curious, but what does the union have to do with it? Are you saying the union would have gotten the weekends off? Must be different there than here. I would think the union would have been pressing for more overtime hours to be made available if anything.
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« Reply #6 on: December 25, 2005, 09:29:06 AM »
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48 hours is the max an employer can make u work...8 hours too much imho.


I was going to buy my daughter a new Cambry for Christmas, but after noticeing the big red Mapleleaf inside the door jam on all the cars at our dealer here in Daytona, I bought her a Pontiac G6. Thanks to a few Loud Mouth politicians in Canada. I did get a little satisfaction in sending them my own small response to their diatribes. The salesman was a little upset that he lost the sale for that reason. I wonder how many more are doing the same as me. You may be working less than 40 hours if many more are doing the same thing I did.
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« Reply #7 on: December 25, 2005, 12:53:28 PM »
Honda has a plant in Alliston. If there is a Toyota plant then it is pretty tiny since I fly over Alliston all the time and have never seen it.

I think this story is bogus.
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Offline Nilsen

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« Reply #8 on: December 25, 2005, 12:55:38 PM »
mmm... onion *drool*
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« Reply #9 on: December 25, 2005, 05:15:42 PM »
Bah ... didn't GM had a firebird plant in Canada in the 70s?
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« Reply #10 on: December 25, 2005, 08:09:36 PM »
The Firebird plant was in Quebec and was closed. It really pissed off the Quebec government at the time.

I believe the Toyota plant is in Cambridge, but that part of Ontario is not really a union type of place.

Honda makes cars in Alliston. GM make cars in Oshawa and Windsor and has plants scattered around in places like St Catherines.

Ford has a major operation (the minivan plant) in Oakville.

Chrysler has plants around including Windsor for minivans.

And Magna world headquarters is in my hometown of Aurora.

Southern Ontario makes more cars than anywhere except Michigan.
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Offline Gunslinger

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« Reply #11 on: December 25, 2005, 08:18:10 PM »
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Originally posted by SirLoin
Toyota Canada just gave the bone to it's employees in Alliston Ont recently.After the CAW canvassed their plant,Toyota promised better job security,benifits and weekends off.

After the CAW lost in a close vote and moved on elsewhere...Toyota announces it's new work schedule for line workers.

Monday to Thursday..9 hours
Friday....................... .8 hours
Saturday...................4 hours(madnatory)...asked to stay for 8


Shoulda signed your union cards dummies.


so do you think they made these changes because they want to "screw the worker" or that maybe that's necesary for production.
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Offline GRUNHERZ

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« Reply #12 on: December 25, 2005, 10:08:18 PM »
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Originally posted by SirLoin
Toyota Canada just gave the bone to it's employees in Alliston Ont recently.After the CAW canvassed their plant,Toyota promised better job security,benifits and weekends off.

After the CAW lost in a close vote and moved on elsewhere...Toyota announces it's new work schedule for line workers.

Monday to Thursday..9 hours
Friday....................... .8 hours
Saturday...................4 hours(madnatory)...asked to stay for 8


Shoulda signed your union cards dummies.


As opposed to what? UAW style wage and pension agreements that would drive Toyota bankrupt and force it to lay opf 30,000 workers like ford and GM are doing now.

UAW work schedule:

Monday to Thursday..  9 hours in unemplyment line
Friday....................... ..  drinking at pub, still no work
Saturday....................  drinking at home
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Offline Booz

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« Reply #13 on: December 25, 2005, 10:27:52 PM »
I wonder how much they took off those executive salaries as a cost of being competitive.
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Offline NUKE

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« Reply #14 on: December 25, 2005, 10:36:26 PM »
I'm going to open a new fake grass outlet. I require that employees work 7 days a week, 9 hours a day minimum and I pay only minimum wage + overtime, with no raises ever.

Guess who decides if this is fair?
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