Toyota will stop making cars and engines in Australia by the end of 2017
"Toyota have made no requests to us other than express their frustration with the difficulty they were having with the industrial relations process," he (Industry Minister Ian Macfarlane) said, when asked whether Toyota had sought financial assistance or other forms of aid.
Industrial relations process: old Aborigine term meaning "duck and point".
"...said Australia Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) Secretary David Oliver."They've (the government) done absolutely nothing to keep Toyota in this country,"
And finally, the exact cause that always manages to elude the MSM...
Toyota's decision follows the planned exits of General Motors and Ford announced last year and would leave no global automaker remaining in Australia as high costs and a strong currency make it an unattractive production base. In contrast, global automakers have been building new factories and ramping up capacity in countries like Indonesia, where a burgeoning middle class and lower costs make it an increasingly attractive production base.
Just a first step to correct Australia's "Ecological Footprint" and moving the country toward its latent utopian "Green Economic Potential" (http://cpd.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/CPD-OP10-Australias_Green_Economic_Potential.pdf)
ReplyDeleteNot surprising that the automakers are pulling out of Australia. Our son worked and went to school in Australia and he said that the union mindset was like a disease in that country. He was in Scotland the year before and he said Australia was just as bad.
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