Toyota is on the way out of manufacturing in Aus

[freakiness]

and this is a comment I just read about the situation.  I deleted the name to save him/her from embarrassment.

"This isn't abbots fault. Whoever started importing into country , I think it was Gillard there the ones to blame. When did KIA and great Wall come to this country? There been here a while."

Are some people really so stupid?

[amber-eyed-girl]

Mine was on sale...and six cylinder...saved just on 15,000$ as it was a special ed., had all the extras including fancy paint...plenty of bang, test drove seven cars.


So for me at that time, the best value and the smoothest/most interesting to drive in the cars we looked at. Good engine, nice and growly and plenty of get up and go.

Did not want a pseudo-manual auto. Terrible lag on the ones I tried.

[*crikey*mate*]

That was good - the OH is still in a camry, and eventually I spose I will have to go back to a sensible car. But for now...

OH was looking at 4X4s today, told him if he wanted one of those he better get a real job LOL

[amber-eyed-girl]

That Camry was just waiting for us in R E D. Was the last one in the run out, then they had three silver non-specials at the same price.


Liked it so much we had the edge of the concrete in the garage shaved to get it to drive in...the angle on the garage is ****


The Toyota guys were also the most courteous and least pushy.

[freakiness]

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@amber-eyed-girl wrote:
That Camry was just waiting for us in R E D. Was the last one in the run out, then they had three silver non-specials at the same price.


Liked it so much we had the edge of the concrete in the garage shaved to get it to drive in...the angle on the garage is ****


The Toyota guys were also the most courteous and least pushy.

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I used to have a blue station wagon Camry.  

I don't need a large car these days. My daughters both have largish cars though. One has a made in Aus.

[monman12]

A disturbing sequel to this thread, which will be cold comfort to Toyota workers
On Friday (July 18th) the Federal Court of Appeal overturned the original decision (preventing Toyota workers voting on their future)

Some excerpts from  this thread:

Labor industry spokesman Kim Carr said the government had ‘‘a viciousness to it, a callous disregard for the social consequences’’ of companies like Toyota departing Australia.

No mention here has been made here of the union's successful  opposition in the Federal Court (Dec 2013) that  Toyota be allowed to vary its workplace agreement via an employee vote upon the proposal.

Good heavens, Toyota only wanted to give the employees the chance to have a say,  but the union did not,  and the result??.

 Why on earth  did the union embark upon a course of action that most probably precipitated Toyota's decision to cease manufacturing within Australia, in that it obtained an injunction prohibiting Toyota from polling its workers regarding working conditions/agreements?

On Friday (July 18th) the Federal Court of Appeal overturned the original decision
"AMWU vehicle division national secretary David Smith said the union was "considering the decision and its ramifications carefully".

It is a pity the AMWU did not "consider" the "ramifications", at the time,  of proceeding with an ideological injunction that excluded the likely consequences upon its Toyota members.

nɥºɾ

[fourandsixpants]

ref .

Why on earth did the union embark upon a course of action that most probably precipitated Toyota's decision to cease manufacturing within Australia, in that it obtained an injunction prohibiting Toyota from polling its workers regarding working conditions/agreements?

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....Why don't you do some R & D then report back with some accompanying graphs?

[lightningdance]

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@monman12 wrote:

A disturbing sequel to this thread, which will be cold comfort to Toyota workers
On Friday (July 18th) the Federal Court of Appeal overturned the original decision (preventing Toyota workers voting on their future)

Some excerpts from  this thread:

Labor industry spokesman Kim Carr said the government had ‘‘a viciousness to it, a callous disregard for the social consequences’’ of companies like Toyota departing Australia.

No mention here has been made here of the union's successful  opposition in the Federal Court (Dec 2013) that  Toyota be allowed to vary its workplace agreement via an employee vote upon the proposal.

Good heavens, Toyota only wanted to give the employees the chance to have a say,  but the union did not,  and the result??.

 Why on earth  did the union embark upon a course of action that most probably precipitated Toyota's decision to cease manufacturing within Australia, in that it obtained an injunction prohibiting Toyota from polling its workers regarding working conditions/agreements?

On Friday (July 18th) the Federal Court of Appeal overturned the original decision
"AMWU vehicle division national secretary David Smith said the union was "considering the decision and its ramifications carefully".

It is a pity the AMWU did not "consider" the "ramifications", at the time,  of proceeding with an ideological injunction that excluded the likely consequences upon its Toyota members.

nɥºɾ

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Monman,  putting up facts and the real reasons why Toyota is going is not what's wanted on this thread and all the other govt bashing threads we see on cs.

I have noticed that nobody from the conservative side of politics can even be bothered entering these threads anymore.

Kudoing each other is all that's left of any real debate and all the good debaters are no longer entering cs.

Car manufacturing is all moving to cheaper and more amenable countries as the unions priced Australia out of the business. The union  thugs won, but what exactly did they win?