Executives at Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky Inc. have no intention of meeting with a Kentucky workers’ rights group that plans to call on them Tuesday, Aug. 28, to discuss worker issues.
The labor group says it will deliver a list of proposals to senior Toyota management to correct what the group claims are worker problems at Toyota’s Georgetown, Ky., auto plant. A press conference was scheduled at the plant entrance at 10 a.m. local time.
But the visitors probably will be greeted by a receptionist who instead will invite them to drop off their proposals and be on their way.
“They sent us an electronic invitation to meet last Friday,” Toyota spokesman Rick Hesterberg said today. “We declined that invitation. But if they have recommendations or proposals for us, they can leave them here for us to review.”
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