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Activists Give Toyota List of Concerns
A social justice group supporting a unionization drive at Toyota's manufacturing plant in Georgetown delivered a series of recommendations about working conditions to the company's management yesterday.

Representatives of Kentucky Jobs With Justice issued several requests of Toyota that grew out of its Workers' Rights Board hearing in June, during which current and former plant workers discussed concerns, including the treatment of temporary workers and on-the-job injuries.

Among the group of more than a dozen people yesterday were three members of the board's panel, including state Rep. Reginald Meeks, D-Louisville. The group last week had requested a meeting with Toyota plant president Steve St. Angelo, who is out of the country. A security guard offered to give the recommendations to St. Angelo's staff, but the group chose to wait more than 30 minutes until a member of management took the recommendations.

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cdokecdoke - 8/30/2007 12:44:57 PMView My AgentSpace
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"social justice" *SNORT*

Troglodyte, n. Specifically, a cave-dweller of the pleolithic period, after the Tree and before the Flat. A famous community of troglodytes dwelt with David in the Cave of Adullam. The colony consisted of "everyone that as in distress, and everyone that was in debt, and everyone that was discontented"- in breif, all the Socialists of Judah.

-The Devils Dictionary, Ambrose Bierce.

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BenzW124BenzW124 - 8/30/2007 1:43:41 PM
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Toyoto wil burn in Hell veery soon

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Agent009Agent009 - 8/30/2007 1:50:21 PMView My AgentSpace
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I love the last paragraph:
"It's ... clear to me that a lot of people -- forward-thinking, optimistic, liberal, progressive people -- buy Toyotas. And those are the kind of people who also believe in equity, fairness, rights and justice," said the Rev. Cynthia Cain of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Lexington, who is also a workers' rights board member. "And when those kinds of people find out that the Toyotas they are buying are supporting a company that may not be everything they thought it was, that's where the change will come."

Seems like the UAW is planning to leverage the liberal vote.

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M35MTM35MT - 8/30/2007 2:27:27 PMView My AgentSpace
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And if you buy a MB you're a Nazi.

Stupid.


S4cabriofoxoneS4cabriofoxone - 8/30/2007 5:31:45 PMView My AgentSpace
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My town is largely Jewish, and it is probably the biggest source of income for Mercedes-Benz in the state of Illinois. LOL. I don't think so, M35.


M35MTM35MT - 8/31/2007 8:26:38 AMView My AgentSpace
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Yeah...sorry if my sarcasm wasnt easier to detect


cdokecdoke - 8/30/2007 10:41:36 PMView My AgentSpace
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Your definition of "a right" is highly flawed. I don't care to go into it at the moment, but I suggest you acquire a deeper understanding of Elightenment philosophy. In particular Locke and Montesquieu- the ideological founders of the United States.

Incidentally, the USSR was a "union" as well. The word "union" here in reference to labor collision is not the same thing.

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toolatetoracetoolatetorace - 8/31/2007 12:29:36 AM
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Go get 'um UAW. This will keeep more of the money that their workers make stay here in this country but, I guess that's what Toytie is afraid of

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