Quality Weenie

Japanese Layed Off Workers Lose Housing

I hear everyday about how auto workers get this benefit and that benefit but the Japenses don't give their workers all those benefits.

The truth comes out ...

Toshio Ohta lost his job at the local truck plant here two months ago. Now the former Hino Motors Ltd. worker is trying to keep Toyota Motor Corp.'s truck unit from throwing him out on the street.

The 39-year-old Ohta, along with about 25 other laid-off temporary workers, have refused to surrender their rooms in the company-owned dormitory next to the factory. They are staying put partly to draw attention to the plight of temporary auto workers in Japan, but also because they have nowhere else to go.

What?

Japanese auto companies give their employees housing?

And that is not all ...

In Toyota City, idled temporary workers from Brazil and Peru are being allowed to stay in their flats, but complain that they are having a hard time securing necessities in a country that provides few resources for foreigners.

"They are lacking basic supplies, like baby milk powder," said Makoto Yuasa, an activist who has championed the cause of Japan's growing army of unemployed workers, many of whom have lost their jobs at automobile plants and parts factories because of the decline in exports to the United States. He says companies like Toyota are unwilling to help.

They also give them "necessities" like baby milk.

Auto makers in Japan are responsible to provide housing and life necessities for their workers, yet they screw their employees in the U.S. in wages and benefits. Guess they need to use all those profits to provide housing for citizens of Japen.

Posted by Quality Weenie at May 14, 2009 08:59 AM | TrackBack