Swaggie
Well I dont know what's going on here.....we as taxpayers have given Toyota Australia a huge amount of money in the form of grants over the last ten years. John Howard started it and recently the current govt saw fit to grant Toyota a futher amount. So we give Toyota , an incredibly massive, wealthy company, grants to research their hybrid vehicle development so that they can send their technology overseas to make huge profits and they **** in the face of the very hand that feeds them by sacking employees because they cant sell enough of the ****ing mundane hybrid Camrys that we are funding.
am I angry?
Dennis
There will be more to come, manufacturing is a dying industry in Australia. Europe will go into recession, nothing really to look forward to these days, unless your a miner selling to China and India
I wonder out of the 350 jobs how many were executive positions? or do they sack workers then pay themselves big bonuses.
Swaggie
Interesting.
The government are letting our manufacturing go overseas touting "We are the clever country". I heard on the radio on the weekend. In the thirty "clever countries" in the world we are rated fifteenth. India and China are above us.
Why are they cleverer than us? I think it's because they've got our manufacturing.
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Until Australian workers are willing to work for the same conditions and pay as third world peasants, industry will leave our shores. Only the bottom line matters to these drongos.
ForumSage
Govt. subsidies go back further Dennis. I can recall Joan Kirner (Vic premier late 80's early 90's) giving them a big bag of cash to open the Altona facility.
Very sad to see people retrenched.
Swaggie
It would be interesting to find out just how much money we have given Toyota over the years. Wonder where one would look?
Moderator
The big end of town gets massive support in tax concessions, subsidies, special awards, tax offsets, special zonings, cheap real estate, etc etc as well as outright grants, and all the big companies have their collective hands up.Originally Posted by ramblingboy42
Remember Kodak ?
What do you think the Federal Industries Minister was doing in Detroit a few weeks back ?
GM and Ford were screwing more concessions/money out of the Feds.
Even the big multi-national fast food chains have their own special award where they pay less/no penalties to their casuals for weekends, etc, yet a privately owned café or takeaway food place has to pay normal award/overtime loadings.
WTF is so special about Macca's, KFC and Pizza Hut that they get financial assistance over a small, local business that puts money back into a local community rather than the big guys that ultimately channel profits OS ?
That sort of thing ****es me off.
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Our workers aren't prepared to work for peanuts, we have OH&S laws, compulsory employer funded super and mandatory long service leave. Then they are cleaverer, because they get subsidised to go to our universities.
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heard on the abc this morning that AU subsidizes the car industry to the tune of about 1/10th of what the US government does
20 years ago there was a 54% tariff on cars.. now there is 5%
free trade agreements with the likes of thailand and korea so they pay next to nothing compared to what used to be the case
they bang on about free trade but ......
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yes they are given money to produce a product that can be made by australians so they can in turn buy a house a car pay taxation and support local busness peoples & bring up a family etc etcWell I dont know what's going on here.....we as taxpayers have given Toyota Australia a huge amount of money in the form of grants over the last ten years. John Howard started it and recently the current govt saw fit to grant Toyota a futher amount. So we give Toyota , an incredibly massive, wealthy company, grants to research their hybrid vehicle development so that they can send their technology overseas to make huge profits and they **** in the face of the very hand that feeds them by sacking employees because they cant sell enough of the ****ing mundane hybrid Camrys that we are funding.
Dennis
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