What kind of "community service" is Toyota going to have their laid off workers doing?

Ford/UAW tried this about 2 decades ago with the job bank. The UAW figured out this was just putting other people out of a job by offering free labor. The company abused it too. Pretty soon they had the guys who were laid off working for free in the dealerships prepping new cars and such. You can bet someone else was laid off or fired when that happened. The union had to put a stop to that.

And you know darn well it is someones job to remove graffiti in San Antonio and Princeton right now. I bet there are companies thats all they do. Having a bunch of laid off Toyota workers doing their job for free means their services will no longer be needed. Maybe your employer could get some of Toyota's free labor to do your job? Thats the way it works.

Don

http://www.financialweek.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080908/REG/309089989

Toyota forgoes layoffs despite plant closings

Automaker sets up retraining sessions for 4,500 idled workers. Cost of keeping them on the clock: at least $50 million.

By Lindsay Chappell
September 8, 2008 12:01 AM ET

They will relearn how to pick up screws. They will study safety practices. They will take classes on workplace diversity and ethics, study corporate history, clean up the mess of urban vandals and probably even plant flowers.

But one thing Toyota's 4,500 idled North American workers will not do is get laid off. snip

It was Ms. Newton who first received word of Toyota's decision last month that assembly lines in San Antonio and Princeton would stop making Tundras and Sequoias. Her instructions were clear: All affected workers would remain on the clock at full pay until assembly resumes in November. snip

The automaker says it has not decided what employees will do after completing their classes, but they will probably work in community service programs around San Antonio and southern Indiana. That would put Toyota employees to work cleaning public parks and scrubbing graffiti from buildings around San Antonio, a company spokesman said.

If they don't do it, our entire financial system will freeze up with catastrophic consequences.

to keep their lifetime employees busy? Hey, the UAW tried that, and congress demanded it be eliminated. Sorry Toyota, that's not gonna fly in this country.

Where do you think we got the idea from. Toyota has it so does Honda down in Ohio. Been had it, they just call it something else. Never ceases to amaze me how people around here blame without looking.

Match transplant's pay. Use their labor model. Yahooooo!

Maybe Toyota could send people to work on repairing the hurricane ravaged coast. It's obvious that no one would be put out of a job that no entity has taken responsibility for doing.

jobs. For example, when people volunteer to work as unpaid or underpaid teachers, why should the city or state ever pay someone a decent wage to do this job?