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<DIV><FONT face="MS UI Gothic"><STRONG><FONT size=4>＜The Toyota related
news＞ＮＯ．15-2<BR></FONT>from APWSL・瘢雹Aichi Group
<Apr13.2010></STRONG></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="MS UI Gothic" size=2><STRONG><FONT size=3>Statement concerning
recall problem of Toyota<BR></FONT></STRONG> <STRONG>All Toyota Union
(ATU) <BR> March 24, 2010</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="MS UI Gothic" size=2><STRONG><BR></STRONG>The recall problem of
Toyota Motor is gazed all over the world as a social problem. <BR>The worldwide
recall problem this time (2010) , 1. Accelerator pedal is caught by floor mat.,
2. Accelerator pedal sometimes stay on floor after depressing due to the
wear-out., 3. The brake of HV vehicle like “Prius” sometimes become
uncontrollable at moment. The above 3 problems caused serious recall more than
10.2 million vehicles totally in Japan, China, US and Europe, and it became the
beginning of the pursuit in an American assembly.<BR> <BR><STRONG>Why did
it fell into such a situation?<BR></STRONG>All Toyota Union submitted 'Request
book on the recall problem' to the company dated October 3, 2006 four years ago,
and pointed out the rapid increase of the recall and cover-up of defective
vehicles, which can be taken as a cover-up of recall, declare an important
anxiety in safety in production, proposed to carry out the social
responsibility, and requested the answer, but have been neglected, as a
result. <BR>We should say that the management foundation, which
doesn't hear the employee's opinions, saying usually "The customer is the most
important.", conceives the biggest problem. <BR>President Mr. Toyoda
reflected "One of the reasons, which caused the quality problem, is the
excessive priority to the market share and the profit in some parts of the
company", and clarified that "Quantity and cost reduction" got priority to
"Safety and quality".<BR>However, it is thought that the real situation is as
follows. <BR>That is, about 30,000 parts are necessary to fabricate an
automobile. Many of the parts are supplied from more than 300 supplier companies
who have the business relationship with Toyota. <BR>After 2000, the
workers who make each parts were excluded from the workplace, and a large number
of dispatched or foreign workers, etc. have been employed as cheap manpower
according to the cost 30% reduction plan having been forcibly done in the
supplier. <BR>There are actual situations of the worker who work by the hourly
wage 300 yen etc. far lower than the minimum of legally allowed wage, unstable
employment and life, where the labor accidents happens frequently under poor
environments. <BR>Exactly, it is real reason of the problem this time, that
Toyota has made up the mechanism with which only Toyota can makes a profit.
<BR>Another point is, "The customer is the most important." cannot be more than
a word, without solving the problems of a large number of non-regular employees
and too busy technical experts workers boarding the pressure of manufacturing
time-limits, tight labor management which make overwork death and depression
disease.<BR>The seriousness of Toyota is tested now, how they will learn from
history and experience seriously, and if they have a real mind to change their
constitution of "The first priority on quantities" and "on commercialism" or
not, in the continuous accidents of their company.<BR>We labor unions will also
not only work on the union member's working condition improvement but also
seriously check the antisocial behavior of the company including recall problem,
cost cutting, and the problem-making employment system in cooperation with the
citizens, from the viewpoints of accomplishing social
responsibility.<BR></DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>