In Kentucky, Toyota Faces Union Rumblings
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GEORGETOWN, Ky. -- Dissident workers at the Toyota plant here gather at the Best Western Georgetown on Wednesdays between shifts to shape a battle plan. The workers are angry at conditions at this flagship Toyota site, where the best-selling Camry is built.
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BusinessWeek Online - Outsiders haven't been allowed a glimpse yet. But rivals are already feeling uneasy. Deep in the Czech Republic, in a town called Kolin, Europe's newest auto plant is being put through its final paces before a March debut. The ultra-low-cost manufacturing joint venture between Toyota Motor Corp.  and PSA Peugeot Citroen (peugy.pk.PK) -- combining Japanese production expertise with French parts-purchasing might in Europe -- is sure to up the ante for volume auto makers, who already have to worry about surviving on razor-thin margins. ...
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American Axle & Manufacturing Holdings  Inc.  on Wednesday said it would offer buyouts or early  retirement to 6,000 U.S. United Auto Workers members because of  the struggles of North American automaker customers, sending  shares up more than 5 percent.
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The action by the United Automobile Workers union signaled a major snag in negotiations that had appeared to be heading toward a new contract.
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Dave Blaney settled behind a microphone at New Hampshire International Speedway's infield media center yesterday to discuss the history-making pole victory he had just delivered his Toyota manufacturer, which came as no small measure of satisfaction in its trying inaugural season in NASCAR's competitive Nextel Cup Series.
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The head of the United Auto Workers union on Monday said that a strike against the struggling U.S. auto industry remains a possibility should workers be unable to agree on terms with the three Detroit-based automakers in contract talks starting this week.
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Nissan is in talks with Chrysler on a possible manufacturing agreement.
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Toyotaâs entry into stock-car racing has some good ole boys revved up. Will the Japanese automaker take over Daytona like itâs overtaking Detroit?
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The Toyota Motor Corporation said it might need more production capacity in China to meet demand as sales there rise at about nine times the pace of those in the United States. âWe are looking at the possibility of a new plant,â an executive vice president, Mitsuo Kinoshita, said at an investor conference in New York, without elaborating. Toyota, based in Toyota City, Japan, began building its seventh factory in China in June.
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Union unrest may cut into the supermarket chain's growth plans.
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Iraqi labour unions making their global debut at a conference in Japan are seeking tips on their tough task -- how to make workers aware of rights suppressed for years by Saddam Hussein.
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When chronicling the decades-long decline of organized labor in the United States, commentators have often examined the dwindling role of unions in troubled industries such as cars and coal. Few consider the more hopeful case of the catfish industry.
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Unions are locked in talks with Jaguar bosses in the hope of  persuading them not to stop car production at the Browns Lane factory in Coventry.
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Business & money: Ailing car giants push union to agree pay cuts.
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Katsuaki Watanabe, the least-known Toyota president in years, has been raising his profile as head of a company that may soon supplant G.M. as the worldÂs biggest automaker.
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Both General Motors and the United Auto Workers want to be seen as driving hard bargains. But each may be driving itself out of business.
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The UAW action is much ado about not very much.