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3200 Workers To Strike At The Toyota Plant.
Sep 1^st, 2011 at 9:05am

3200 production workers at Toyota Australia’s Melbourne plant will stop work for 24-hours on Friday after unions rejected a pay offer that was lower than the increase they were seeking.

The 24-hour strike will commence at 7am on Friday. A meeting will also be held to decide whether further action would be taken.

The strike comes after unions rejected a pay offer which was 1% lower than the 12% they were seeking over three years.

Toyota Australia confirmed that it has received notice of the 24-hour strike which will take place this Friday.

The decision to strike was voted by Toyota workers in a secret ballot. The majority of workers at the automotive giant are members of Australian Workers Union.

Toyota Australia told FEN that as it stands, the potential industrial relations action will take place, however the company is continuing to hold discussions with unions on the matter.

The Toyota plant operates a 7-day week on a two shift cycle – an AM and PM shift. The AM shift is more geared towards production, while the PM shift is predominately focused on maintenance.

A 24-hour strike with affect both shifts and will see the automotive giant loose a full-day in its Altona production cycle.

The news follows Toyota Australia’s announcement last week that it will manufacture the new seventh-generation Camry at it Atlona plant in Melbourne.

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Verge Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 6329 Gender:	Re: 3200 Workers To Strike At The Toyota Plant. Reply #1 - Sep 1^st, 2011 at 9:22am PURE UTTER GREED. CPI IS 3.4%, SO THE OFFER SHOULD BE NO MORE THAN 10.2% OVER 3 YEARS, NOT THE GREEDY 12% LIKE THEY WANT. Also, enjoy your retrenchment guys, after the greens got through their changes to FBT rates on cars, expect to sell a lot less fleet ones.
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Reply #2 - Sep 1^st, 2011 at 11:47am

Verge wrote on Sep 1^st, 2011 at 9:22am:

PURE UTTER GREED. CPI IS 3.4%, SO THE OFFER SHOULD BE NO MORE THAN 10.2% OVER 3 YEARS, NOT THE GREEDY 12% LIKE THEY WANT.

Also, enjoy your retrenchment guys, after the greens got through their changes to FBT rates on cars, expect to sell a lot less fleet ones.

oh jees 1.8% extra makes them greedy as opposed to CEO's getting multi million dollar bonuses and pay increases Cheesy

LOL

FYI most of what Toyota manufactures is exported. Also Toyota got 100 million in corporate welfare to manufacture stuff here so they can afford to be a bit more generous don't you think ?

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Reply #3 - Sep 1^st, 2011 at 12:13pm

Absobloodylutely!!

....but of course genuine working class Labor voting Australians KNOW that Tony Abbott, in hand with Howard the union HATER, wants to destroy the working man's choices for his billionaire corporate handlers to exploit.

Wait till these doped up angry young men who have no idea about the REAL anti working class man Liberal party, actually see what they were supporting in Tony Abbott when they grow up and learn something of a truthful nature about politics. Having been BRAINWASHED by the Howard/Abbott/Murdoch media machine for most of their short lives I kinda understand..so hopefully maturity and facts will eventually help them to wake up to the scam artist Tony Abbott..the man who would not want to sit on most Australians couches for fear of filth. He's used to the GOOD life..our Tonsey. Shocked

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Reply #4 - Sep 1^st, 2011 at 12:32pm

Verge wrote on Sep 1^st, 2011 at 9:22am:

PURE UTTER GREED. CPI IS 3.4%, SO THE OFFER SHOULD BE NO MORE THAN 10.2% OVER 3 YEARS, NOT THE GREEDY 12% LIKE THEY WANT.

Also, enjoy your retrenchment guys, after the greens got through their changes to FBT rates on cars, expect to sell a lot less fleet ones.

had an email in the week telling me how good the Chinese are.. did you know they made and sold 18 million cars last year..I am almost positive none of them were electic though

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Reply #5 - Sep 1^st, 2011 at 12:37pm

cods wrote on Sep 1^st, 2011 at 12:32pm:

Verge wrote on Sep 1^st, 2011 at 9:22am:

PURE UTTER GREED. CPI IS 3.4%, SO THE OFFER SHOULD BE NO MORE THAN 10.2% OVER 3 YEARS, NOT THE GREEDY 12% LIKE THEY WANT.

Also, enjoy your retrenchment guys, after the greens got through their changes to FBT rates on cars, expect to sell a lot less fleet ones.

had an email in the week telling me how good the Chinese are.. did you know they made and sold 18 million cars last year..I am almost positive none of them were electic though

I can assure you that some were Wink

Just because we don't make them doesn't mean others don't.

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Reply #6 - Sep 1^st, 2011 at 8:45pm

Sir lastnail wrote on Sep 1^st, 2011 at 11:47am:

Verge wrote on Sep 1^st, 2011 at 9:22am:

PURE UTTER GREED. CPI IS 3.4%, SO THE OFFER SHOULD BE NO MORE THAN 10.2% OVER 3 YEARS, NOT THE GREEDY 12% LIKE THEY WANT.

Also, enjoy your retrenchment guys, after the greens got through their changes to FBT rates on cars, expect to sell a lot less fleet ones.

oh jees 1.8% extra makes them greedy as opposed to CEO's getting multi million dollar bonuses and pay increases Cheesy

LOL

FYI most of what Toyota manufactures is exported. Also Toyota got 100 million in corporate welfare to manufacture stuff here so they can afford to be a bit more generous don't you think ?

Yep give them the pay rise and then they'll go broke and close up shop and 3200 workers will be unemployed.....thaanks be to the unions yet again

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Reply #7 - Sep 4^th, 2011 at 7:59am

Car parts distribution centres also hit. Huh

* Further strikes planned next week

* Pay increases and timing at centre of dispute (Adds union comment)

SYDNEY/TOKYO, Sept 2 (Reuters) - More than 3,000 workers walked off the job at Toyota Motor Co's Australian car factory on Friday, bringing production to a halt in the first of a threatened series of 24-hour strikes over pay.

The factory in Melbourne, which turns out Camry, Hybrid Camry and Aurion models, made about 119,000 vehicles in 2010.

Workers stopped work early Friday morning at the factory and at Toyota car-parts distribution centres in Melbourne and Sydney.

The workers plan further 24-hour strikes on Thursday and Friday next week unless the dispute is resolved, said Dave Smith, acting national secretary of the Australian Manufacturing Workers' Union.

Toyota and the union say they are negotiating over the car-maker's offer of a 7 percent pay rise over two years, plus a bonus, but the union says Toyota wants to hold back almost all of that increase until next year and into 2013. Sad

Smith said only a 1 percent pay rise would be immediately awarded in 2011.

"Trying to sell that to a worker who hasn't had an increase since April last year is pretty hard," he said. Sad

Toyota Australia said it had initially offered in July a wage rise of 11 percent over 39 months and on Thursday amended that to a 7 percent increase over two years plus a bonus.

"All offers were rejected by the unions," the company said. (Reporting by Mark Bendeich in SYDNEY and Chang-Ran Kim in TOKYO; Editing by Matt Driskill)

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cods Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 88048	Re: 3200 Workers To Strike At The Toyota Plant. Reply #8 - Sep 4^th, 2011 at 8:45am teachers had a half day strike in ACT last week.. with more planned I believe..the old strikes are creeping back in are they not? I thought fairwork took care of all that
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imcrookonit Ex Member	Re: 3200 Workers To Strike At The Toyota Plant. Reply #9 - Sep 4^th, 2011 at 9:18am I am sure we are still going to get some strikes, under any system, are we not?.
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Reply #10 - Sep 4^th, 2011 at 12:27pm

Swagman wrote on Sep 1^st, 2011 at 8:45pm:

Sir lastnail wrote on Sep 1^st, 2011 at 11:47am:

Verge wrote on Sep 1^st, 2011 at 9:22am:

PURE UTTER GREED. CPI IS 3.4%, SO THE OFFER SHOULD BE NO MORE THAN 10.2% OVER 3 YEARS, NOT THE GREEDY 12% LIKE THEY WANT.

Also, enjoy your retrenchment guys, after the greens got through their changes to FBT rates on cars, expect to sell a lot less fleet ones.

oh jees 1.8% extra makes them greedy as opposed to CEO's getting multi million dollar bonuses and pay increases Cheesy

LOL

FYI most of what Toyota manufactures is exported. Also Toyota got 100 million in corporate welfare to manufacture stuff here so they can afford to be a bit more generous don't you think ?

Yep give them the pay rise and then they'll go broke and close up shop and 3200 workers will be unemployed.....thaanks be to the unions yet again

as soon as the corporate welfare stops they will go broke so they may as well get that corporate welfare before it is shipped overseas !!

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