Hear my prayer:Sources say Toyota fleeing CA, taking 5,000 jobs to more business-friendly Texas
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Toyota employees will be voting to unionise in Cambridge Ontario. Wonder how many of their employees will be willing to re-locate to tax friendly Alberta!
This will be much better for the Toyota employees. The lower TX tax rates will allow Toyota to deliver a better standard of living to its employees. The losers? All those In the California ruling class, and all those California residents living off the public. Win – win, all the way around.
To paraphrase Everett Dirksen, five-thousand jobs here and five-thousand jobs there and soon you’re talking about the whole economy.
If I remember correctly, Toyota used to build the Matrix in California on a joint venture assembly line with GM where Pontiac Vibes and Matrixes were both built. When Pontiac folded Toyota walked away and is now building Matrixes in Cambridge, Ontario.
I’ve been saying they should leave California for years. By which I mean, pull out all offices and manufacturing/assembly facilities, and STOP SHIPPING PARTS.
They all should. As should gun manufacturers and all the truck guys, the heavy equipment guys, etc. All the makers of things who have been burnt by the insane California regulatory environment.
And by insane I mean there’s a Canadian company making good money shipping -gravel- to California from BC, because they can land it on the dock in LA cheaper than guys can dig it up locally.
Companies can boycott states too.
Torrance seems to have rock solid representation to care of their needs…
Maxine Waters
Henry Waxman
“In the state legislature Torrance is located in the 28th Senate District, represented by Democrat Ted Lieu, and in the 53rd Assembly District, represented by Democrat Betsy Butler. Federally, Torrance is split between California’s 43rd congressional district represented by Democrat Maxine Waters and California’s 33rd congressional district represented by Henry Waxman.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torrance,_California
Somehow, this is going to be Ted Cruz’ fault.
I don’t believe this is correct. I live in Cambridge and worked for a Tier 1 supplier for the 2008 model Vibe / Matrix / Corrola launch. The Vibe was made in Cali, but the Matrix and Corrola were only made in Toyota plants. The Vibe plant closed when GM decided to end the Pontiac brand entirely.
The union vote in Cambridge and Woodstock has been postponed indefinitely, not enough cards signed, and insufficient math skills within the union leadership to count the cards they had signed to begin with. A coworker who’s spouse works on the assembly line at the Rav 4 plant in Woodstock breathed a great sigh of relief
Go, Toyota, Go!
And I mean that literally. Boycott socialism now, or you will eventually. As the workers used to say in the Soviet bloc, “They pretend to reward us, we pretend to work.”
Toyota better watch out, I see a #boycotttoyota twitter campaign on the horizon. Your supposed to keep this quiet until the moving vans are on site.
The downside to this issue is how many workers will also flee California for Texas and bring their stupid voting tendencies with them? You know those tendencies to elect governments that caused the jobs to leave in the first place?
biffjr. – CA is ruled by an alliance of the very poor and the very rich, as has been documented by Joel Kotkin, among others. That is also the allance that elected Obama.
The workers leaving would tend to vote to the right of the typical CA voter, IMO.
And here I was thinking Canada for a moment. Businesses have been fleeing California since Reagan was last governor of the state. Sadly I remember going there with my parents and visiting my dads friends, who are now in Texas. I really did love California back in the 80’s, it was awesome. Banning and Beaumont were interesting places to spend your summer, especially when you could hop on a dirt bike and pretty much go anywhere. That was before the environuts kicked in.
Toyota employees will be voting to unionise in Cambridge Ontario. Wonder how many of their employees will be willing to re-locate to tax friendly Alberta!
This will be much better for the Toyota employees. The lower TX tax rates will allow Toyota to deliver a better standard of living to its employees. The losers? All those In the California ruling class, and all those California residents living off the public. Win – win, all the way around.
To paraphrase Everett Dirksen, five-thousand jobs here and five-thousand jobs there and soon you’re talking about the whole economy.
If I remember correctly, Toyota used to build the Matrix in California on a joint venture assembly line with GM where Pontiac Vibes and Matrixes were both built. When Pontiac folded Toyota walked away and is now building Matrixes in Cambridge, Ontario.
I’ve been saying they should leave California for years. By which I mean, pull out all offices and manufacturing/assembly facilities, and STOP SHIPPING PARTS.
They all should. As should gun manufacturers and all the truck guys, the heavy equipment guys, etc. All the makers of things who have been burnt by the insane California regulatory environment.
And by insane I mean there’s a Canadian company making good money shipping -gravel- to California from BC, because they can land it on the dock in LA cheaper than guys can dig it up locally.
Companies can boycott states too.
Torrance seems to have rock solid representation to care of their needs…
Maxine Waters
Henry Waxman
“In the state legislature Torrance is located in the 28th Senate District, represented by Democrat Ted Lieu, and in the 53rd Assembly District, represented by Democrat Betsy Butler. Federally, Torrance is split between California’s 43rd congressional district represented by Democrat Maxine Waters and California’s 33rd congressional district represented by Henry Waxman.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torrance,_California
Somehow, this is going to be Ted Cruz’ fault.
I don’t believe this is correct. I live in Cambridge and worked for a Tier 1 supplier for the 2008 model Vibe / Matrix / Corrola launch. The Vibe was made in Cali, but the Matrix and Corrola were only made in Toyota plants. The Vibe plant closed when GM decided to end the Pontiac brand entirely.
The union vote in Cambridge and Woodstock has been postponed indefinitely, not enough cards signed, and insufficient math skills within the union leadership to count the cards they had signed to begin with. A coworker who’s spouse works on the assembly line at the Rav 4 plant in Woodstock breathed a great sigh of relief
Go, Toyota, Go!
And I mean that literally. Boycott socialism now, or you will eventually. As the workers used to say in the Soviet bloc, “They pretend to reward us, we pretend to work.”
Toyota better watch out, I see a #boycotttoyota twitter campaign on the horizon. Your supposed to keep this quiet until the moving vans are on site.
The downside to this issue is how many workers will also flee California for Texas and bring their stupid voting tendencies with them? You know those tendencies to elect governments that caused the jobs to leave in the first place?
biffjr. – CA is ruled by an alliance of the very poor and the very rich, as has been documented by Joel Kotkin, among others. That is also the allance that elected Obama.
The workers leaving would tend to vote to the right of the typical CA voter, IMO.
And here I was thinking Canada for a moment. Businesses have been fleeing California since Reagan was last governor of the state. Sadly I remember going there with my parents and visiting my dads friends, who are now in Texas. I really did love California back in the 80’s, it was awesome. Banning and Beaumont were interesting places to spend your summer, especially when you could hop on a dirt bike and pretty much go anywhere. That was before the environuts kicked in.