Toyota
has warned the Philippine government that it will shut down its local assembly
operations unless labour activism in the country is curtailed, BRG Newswire
reported.
The threat followed an extended strike at Toyota assembly plants after the
company sacked 227 employees on March 16.
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Toyota said that it was justified in firing the employees because they were
preventing 1,200 employees from working during an unauthorised work stoppage.
Two Toyota plants in Bicutan and Santa Rosa, south of Manila, were affected
by the industrial action.
Toyota added that some of the dismissed employees were also performing poorly
at work.
However, BRG Newswire said, the workers’ union is backing them and has
called a strike, insisting that Toyota reinstate the sacked workers with back
pay to March 16.
Toyota also said that the Philippine government had not fairly helped to solve
the labour dispute and had shown excessive tolerance of rising labour activism
in the country.
The Japanese car maker reportedly told Philippine government officials that
if it abandoned the country, many more Japanese companies would follow, BRG
added.
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