http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/APStories/stories/D91C41C80.html06/17/2008
Associated Press
Toyota Motor Corp. on Tuesday told 200 temporary workers at its full-size truck plant they will be laid off this summer.
The company will also slow production at its Tundra plant, scheduling 14 days between now and October when no trucks will roll off the assembly lines. Workers will be allowed to take vacation, days without pay or work at the plant on non-manufacturing duties those days as they choose, said Toyota spokesman Mike Goss.
The temporary workers were hired at the plant with hopes of becoming permanent employees as other workers left, but they will instead be returned to the agency that helped hire them, Goss said.
"We have a very long-term view of that factory in Texas. We're trying not to overreact. We're trying not to shut it down," said Goss, who noted record-high gas prices and a slowing economy have badly damaged truck sales.
And they still are.
http://www.wchstv.com/newsroom/eyewitness/0811/081120_0d1740f8.shtmlToyota Announces LayoffsNovember 21, 2008
The layoff of 120 workers at the Toyota plant in Buffalo is hitting close to home at a bad time.
Michelle Frank, the assistant manager at Stokes Grocery in Buffalo says, "It's Christmastime. Things are rough everywhere."
Frank says her nephew will be losing his job at the plant December 5th.
"He's probably going to lose his apartment. His cell phone bill. How's he going to pay rent, cell phone, insurance things like that when you have no job?" says Frank.
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