(370) Toyota layoffs shock (Indiana) workers

[UpInArms]

Source: WFIE channel 14News Indiana

A 14 News follow-up on the layoffs announced by Toyota's Gibson County plant on Tuesday. That's when 370 "temporary" employees learned they would be losing their jobs.

All of them are with Personnel Management Incorporated of Greenwood, Indiana. PMI provides Toyota with a temporary work force that can be increased or reduced according to demands.

For employees, like Leslie Acord, the news came as a shock, "It's not just 370 people, it's 370 families"

Leslie Acord and her husband are among the 370 employees being laid off at the Toyota plant in Gibson County.

Acord says it's a major loss, "Within an eight hour span, I cried, I was angry, I was complacent and I really didn't care so you go through the grief stages just like you would if you lost something else that was important to you."

Read more: http://www.14wfie.com/Global/story.asp?S=6435509&nav=3w6o

[Paulie]

1. You know you're a temp, work as a contractor and when reduced you're shocked?

I'm shocked at their shock. Though I do empathize.

My company does the same thing, backfills with temps who stick around for years. There is always the hope of being perm, but in the tech industry where I work, there is always a cheaper temp waiting in the wings; if not this country than another. And the company leverages this as much as it can.

The whole situation is shocking...

[DBoon]

2. we are all temps

whether in name or not.

We are all disposable in the interests of profit seeking.

Their fight to keep their jobs is no different from anyone else's

[madrchsod]

3. yes we are...

40 years of watching my profession being moved to asia...now i`m to old and in the way..

[Erika]

4. This will end up with the elimination of the middle class

and so very few of our Congress seem to care.

[Indy_Dem_Defender]

5. These weren't even High paying jobs

Either, they made about 9-10 an hour tops for PMI. How do I know I've worked for PMI at one time in between jobs, and they tried cheating me out of a paycheck, after a week of blowing me off I confronted them about it in person at their office, they simply push print on their computer and a check is printed off the printer. The next monday I go to the job they found me and the company says the are laying me off due to a slow season, they will call me back though, when they didn't know. I already had a job lined up during this time so my new job just gave me more hours to work. I get a call back from PMI a month later saying I can come back now, I ask them do you think I was just waiting by the phone for you to call, they seemed suprise and said yes.

[1932]

6. Is not hiring a temp technically a Toyota layoff?

[Lone_Star_Dem]

7. I'm all too painfully clear on what being a temp worker means

And what happened to these people is the nature of the business.

[Fierce]

8. But but but!

I thought Toyota and its business practices were teh savior of car manufacturing in America!

[tabasco]

9. But, but, but I thought people who bought Toyotas were killing jobs in America! n/t

[ryanmuegge]

10. Oh, Toyota's just such a wonderful company. They can do no wrong, like Apple.

...

Give me a break.