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Toyota to introduce work-sharing in Britain

Business Mar. 12, 2009 - 06:02AM JST ( 8 )

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ThenewfrontMar. 12, 2009 - 06:39AM JST

GReat work Toyota, make the British working man pay for your poor decisions and lack of planning for the future.

We need a new car industry nationalised, that doesn't involve untrustworthy foreign scam artists.
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ScroteMar. 12, 2009 - 09:43AM JST

Given the atrocious rubbish turned out at vast expense by the previous, nationalised British car industry, I'd say that nationalisation is the last thing that's needed.
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ThenewfrontMar. 12, 2009 - 09:51AM JST

The large manufacturers and possibly supermarkets including the car industry should be nationalised so the goods aresold for good value and fat cat bosses don'T rip off the working class anymore.

The government should demand a meeting with Toyota and ask how they got in this mess, and deal with them accordingly.
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LowlyMar. 12, 2009 - 11:11AM JST

Worksharing means the workers are sharing the work with each other. like instead of half of them getting fired and half of them staying on at full hrs/ wages. So Toyota said this is howmany cars we'll make we need 70 full time people and the workers say we'll share that work among 100 people. Apparently it's a natnl system in Holland inc. pulblic sector like police and school teachers, and works well with very high employment rates for the country.
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wanderlustMar. 12, 2009 - 03:38PM JST

Better a 10% pay cut with less work for one year, than no job at all. Though with the full unemployment benefit packages available in the UK, they might prefer no job...

Now if only the bankers, top executives and other suits would take a pay cut ...
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herefornowMar. 12, 2009 - 04:32PM JST

How come its OK in Britain, but you'd never see them do it here? Oh, I forgot, doing it here would admit that the Toyota concept of hiring for life, pay based on seniority, etc. is really outdated. And that would shock good old Japan to its very roots.
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wanderlustMar. 12, 2009 - 05:08PM JST

herefornow - the Unions still retain some power in the UK, and actively seek the best for their members, whereas in Japan they roll over backwards to please management, hence strikes on holidays, protests on days off, etc.. Very few part-time contract workers in the UK, so they have to take care of permanent staff; whereas in Japan, the part-time and contract workers have been fired in their 10,000s to relieve the wages bill. Sony and I think Pioneer have used job-sharing in Japan, but it has only worked in a few divisions.

And lifetime employment has only ever covered around 25% of the Japanese workforce, the blue-chippers...