Why is barely anyone reporting that toyota announced that they are closing a

[BillyCunningham]

plant in california? and are laying of 40,000

tha't right, 40,000 in fremont, california.

that's what it says in the sunday oregonian, 40,000

[TheGrayConservative]

This happened a bit ago, most Californians don't even know themselves, most of the jobs are moving out of the country, some are going over to more stable states in the midwest.

[RobinsonCruz]

The plant employs 4700. The Detroit Free Press also stuck an extra zero onto the number, so 40,000 is wrong, but 4700 is bad enough. The state legislature is scrambling to incentivize Toyota to keep the plant. We'll see if it works.

http://www.fremontbulletin.com/ci_13316100

[Steven]

Only because they are moving to Mexico so they are not paying taxes on the goods they produce. That's why a majority of companies are moving away from the U.S. It's cheaper to produce a product in a different company and ship it here than to pay the high taxes on their factories here.

[tonalc2]

We've known about the closing (possible and actual) for quite some time now, about eight months.

It's because GM pulled out of the 50/50 partnership deal with Toyota at the NUMMI plant.

But your numbers are WAY off. It's not 40,000, it's 4,600. Still not a good number, but not as catastrophic as you make it out to be.

Edit: Stephen, they're not moving to Mexico. They're moving the production to San Antonio, Texas and Ontario, Canada.

[tonalc2]

We've known about the closing (possible and actual) for quite some time now, about eight months.

It's because GM pulled out of the 50/50 partnership deal with Toyota at the NUMMI plant.

But your numbers are WAY off. It's not 40,000, it's 4,600. Still not a good number, but not as catastrophic as you make it out to be.

Edit: Stephen, they're not moving to Mexico. They're moving the production to San Antonio, Texas and Ontario, Canada.

[ziggurat4u]

because cali is a liberally ran state and the media supports liberalism since 87% of the media is made up of registered libs. they hate to expose themselves, and there states, as failures

[JerryO]

The NY Times ran a mention of it on August 28 saying 4,700 UAW workers will lose their jobs in March 2010, some to transfer to Ohio. The reason given because of GM reductions..GM owns a joint venture with Toyota.

[DixieNormis]

Because Barry O'Kenyan is SAVING jobs!

[DixieNormis]

Because Barry O'Kenyan is SAVING jobs!