Toyota moves from Ca to Tx: When are bluestates going to actively fight job poachers?

[haele]

166. I'm not sure it's so much "business environment" issue but consolidation issue that prompted this.

From what I've been hearing (one of my reenactor friends retired last year from the Torrance Toyota complex working on operational strategies), Toyota was already implementing a no new hires/staff attrition policy there as well as the costs of consolidation in many of their North American divisions.
Most of the Torrence employees are supporting products being built in the SE, and this was being considered a distribution and quality assurance strategy move rather than a "it's too expensive to do business in California" move. They had previously been looking at moving some operations to Alabama or Tennessee.
Texas just gave them a better offer that they could take immediately. Just so Perry could brag about poaching.
And a lot of the OC employees are pissed; as another poster indicated, the vested employees who ave been given an offer to move with Toyota Operations are going to be seeing not only a cost of living decrease to move to Texas because "everything's cheaper" - but higher property taxes for the same size housing and higher insurance costs.
And the pain of attempting to sell their California property for market price instead of at quick sell price while they are moving to Texas.

Moving is not cheap for Toyota no matter what incentives Perry's Texas has offered them - unless he's offered to pay all their costs to move and dispose of their California properties also.
As it is, they're going to have to sell the Torrence plant property (unless they think they can lease it out and find a tenant quick), and that's much more difficult and time consuming than either selling a personal home.

Haele