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To: LLCF who wrote (29389)3/2/2003 8:49:14 PM
From: elmatador  Read Replies (1) of 74559
 
Toyota executive backs French workers
By James Mackintosh in Geneva and Peter Marsh in Fukuyama, Japan
Published: March 3 2003 0:22 | Last Updated: March 3 2003 0:22


American workers at Toyota's factories do not put as much effort into their jobs as French employees, a senior executive at the Japanese carmaker - the world's third largest - said.


Toyota's French factory is 20 per cent more efficient than its US operations because well-off American workers do not need the money so much, while French staff are motivated to work harder because of high unemployment, said Kosuke Shiramizu, board member in charge of global production.
The frank assessment by Mr Shiramizu is likely to anger American workers. It comes as anti-French sentiment, sparked by France's resistance to a US invasion of Iraq, is becoming increasingly prevalent in the US media.

Mr Shiramizu's comments on Japanese workers, who "goof around" and work less hard than in the past, and the British workforce, which he said suffers from "institutional" failings, are likely to anger workers worldwide.

North Americans are "rather wealthy and therefore don't want to work too hard", he said in an interview with the Financial Times. "In France there are many unemployed people and so [those with jobs] tend to work harder," he said.


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Interesting. I wonder what AC would say about that. I love the Japamese non political correcteness that calls a sword a sword.
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