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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