Toyota to Resume Construction of Mississippi Plant

[Omaha Steve]

Source: NY Times

By NICK BUNKLEY Detroit - Toyota said Thursday that it would resume construction of a Mississippi plant that had been put on hold 18 months ago because of the recession.

And in another sign that auto sales have improved dramatically, General Motors said it would skip the annual summer shutdown at all but two of its United States plants to keep up with demand.

Toyota said its $1.3 billion plant in Blue Spring, Miss., was scheduled to begin building Corolla compact cars, not sport utility vehicles or hybrid cars as previously planned, in the fall of 2011.

Toyota said it would hire 2,000 people, the same number of jobs it originally planned to create at the plant, which is 90 miles southeast of Memphis

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/18/business/businessspecial4/18toyota.html?src=busln

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Mississippi needs good paying jobs. Any bets on Toyota letting the UAW represent these workers since the pay is now the same? Seniority, pension, medical, etc. would be the difference.

[provis99]

1. funny how the Japanese always build these plants in white areas of the South.

black man can't get a break, even from the Japanese.

[saigon68]

2. Having closely observed their treatment of blacks

Especially in Okinawa ---its no surprise

[Ed Barrow]

3. Toyota to restart stalled Mississippi plant

Source: The Clarion Ledger

Toyota today announced it would open its Blue Springs plant next fall and build the Corolla at the Mississippi facility.

The company mothballed the facility in December 2008 after the economy faltered. It was scheduled to build the Prius hybrid.

Toyota spokeswoman Barbara McDaniel said building the Corolla “enables us to get this plant up and running in a much quicker manner because it is an existing model.”

McDaniel said the plant will employ 2,000 workers once it's up and running.


Read more: http://www.clarionledger.com/article/20100617/BIZ/100617001/Toyota+to+build+Corolla+in+Miss.

[iamtechus]

4. Let's hope that those 2000 workers have a union!

[Mudoria]

5. That won't happen