New Toyota Plant: Congratulations Blue Springs (live, money, area)

[cmm1959]

Sounds like you have been involved in plant start ups before Chimpie

[Chimpie]

Originally Posted by cmm1959

Sounds like you have been involved in plant start ups before Chimpie

I have. I was at the Indiana plant (TMMI) for the last 18 months of construction and first two years of production.

[cmm1959]

My hunch was right

[toyotaemployeenky]

At tmmk they like the team members to be involved in the setup of the machines to some extent. Not putting them in place so much as working with the skilled team members to work the bugs out. And in doing that it teaches regular t/m's about the machines they have to work with and how to fix minor problems like fault resets and rerunning doors purging adhesive,mastic, and precure robots and other small things. And sa far as toyota not opening the doors to the new plant that would be bad business since mississippi will be making an economy car.

[cmm1959]

With the economy like it is.I think that is why people think that the doors wont open. But I agree with you that it would be bad buisness.Also I see that Toyota upped their demand to 510 skilled t/ms now on a Ms employment website. I think they will start bringing people in next year sometime.To do like you say , for the skilled to get use to the equipment.

[toyotaemployeenky]

As people will soon see Toyota is a company like no other. They have payed 2 different companies for 40 hours a week for 4 months for not producing cars. Just to train and get better at qaulity. And this is in a time when other automakers are begging for our tax dollars to bail them out of another mess. And so many people are losing their jobs because of it. We still got out raise granted it was small to comparison of some raises but when you make as much as we do you have to slow down eventually plus our bonuses are a little smaller but still better than i have ever recieved any where else i have ever worked. And most of us don't mind thid because it is helping keep other employees at different plants in a job. Our sales are still good with the camry and such so we help other companies untill the economy picks up. Just like Mississippi might do for us one day or Texas might do for you. I guess what I am saying is why worry about a company that can do this while other companies are destroying hard working peoples lively hoods by bad managment and second rate product. One where the only people that are still really makimng money is the union which helped end their automitive employment. That is why so many toyota workers don't want a union. Why would we need to pay someone hundreds of dollars a year to come in and eventually take our bread and butter. Any way this is off track. We are still sending people down to help get things started. Mainly our group leaders,team leaders, and members of pilot. All of which will come back except for around 6 experienced people that will help mold the new company into a top rated high producing safe money making auot plant that goes out of its way to make sure they take care of all emplyees. A company that takes osha's standards and cuts them in half for what they will allow. A company that leads the antion in safety standards. A company that sets the bar for all other companies and osha themselves.

[cmm1959]

Wow toyotaemployeenky Toyota sounds great I am very hopefull I will get a call soon for a skilled . labor miantenance t/m position.You say you are still sending people down there to Tupelo, I was under the impression that they were still building . But I heard that they have a simulation building in the furniture mart in Tupelo.Maybe that is where your co workers are training people at till the building is ready.

[pirate_lafitte]

Originally Posted by JMT

The State of Mississippi is giving Toyoyta about $150,000 per job to build that plant in Mississippi. I wonder how I can get ahold of that. I mean, if the State of Mississippi wants to pay me $150,000 PER JOB to start a business in Mississippi, I'll do it tomorrow. And what about other companies that want to do business in Mississippi? Does this mean they're also entitled to CHA-CHING cash in on Mississippi's desperation?

I used to live near Blue Springs (Pontotoc), and while that area can definitely use an extra 2,000 jobs, I'm just not one of those who thinks that a company should be lavished with gifts and cash to open up a factory. Other ancillary jobs will be created, but many of them will be at existing suppliers in Tennessee and Alabama.

But Tupelo isn't a bad place. It's got decent schools, decent shopping, and it's got some nice neighborhoods. It's over 100 miles away from the nearest big city and big airport (Memphis). Like many places in Mississippi, the crime rate is surprisingly high for such a small town, but compared to big cities it's not too bad.

I just feel sorry for the good people of the Mississippi Delta who, once again, have seen fortune pass them by. And what happened to Meridian, which was supposedly going to land a Kia plant a year or so ago? Why didn't the state encourage Toyota to go there? Oh well.

this is what I have to say. The Toyota factory will provide jobs to where it is going. Sadly, this is why it would choose Mississippi over a place like the urban Midwest. Mississippi is among the cheapest places to live. With a cheap cost of living comes relatively cheap wages, and no unions. Now unions, well, I know what they were formed for. The worker was being treated badly and union organization was needed at the time. Well, today unions have a reputation for being vampires and many people who are in unions will often take advantage of that. With that said, it is easier to open a car planted in the rural Southeast because workers won't be paid as much as they should be paid. An automobile assembly worker IMHO should be paid about $20/hour for the type of work involved. I do support tax breaks for companies who create jobs in the USA. I also support treating the worker right in the first place. The worker should be hard working and do his/her job. In return, the boss should treat the worker right give the work a decent salary for the work involved.

As for why an automobile won't build a plant in the Mississippi Delta, I think alot of factories just don't want to build anything there. Sad. That area needs jobs.

[cmm1959]

I think toyota has built new plants in Texas and Canada lately.What does IMHO stand for?

[Chimpie]

Originally Posted by cmm1959

I think toyota has built new plants in Texas and Canada lately.What does IMHO stand for?

Yes they have.

IMHO = In my humble opinion...