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...concept worked fine for a while at the 13-month-old Honda motorcycle plant in Marysville, Ohio, where all 200 employees wear the company's white overalls. But on May 16 a maintenance man decided to embellish the standard wardrobe with a United Auto Workers baseball cap. Plant officials promptly made him remove it and issued a flat ban on noncompany hats on the ground that allowing them would impair "the Honda working environment." Union buttons were forbidden too because they might damage production-line paintwork...
...episode enraged U.A.W. officials, who have been frustrated in their efforts to organize workers at other Japanese facilities in the U.S. The U.A.W. complained to the National Labor Relations Board, charging that Honda's dress code was being used to block union organizing efforts. The U.A.W. also objects to Hon a's habit of calling its employees "associates," complaining that this is intended to blur labor-management distinctions in the workers' minds...
...technologically superior cars, and many admit to some nervousness now that the American firms are becoming serious about producing small cars. In fact, no one will be watching the market performance of Detroit's new cars closer than automen in the executive suites of Toyota, Nissan and Honda...
...they do not want. Both Carter and industry officials would like the Japanese to construct assembly plants here, and last week Nissan Motor, which makes the Datsun, announced plans for a new $300 million truck plant to be built in either the Great Lakes region or the Southeastern U.S. Honda will begin construction of an auto plant by the end of 1980 next door to its Marysville, Ohio, motorcycle facility...
...success in many products. We know that compared to a few years ago, we now buy Japanese hi-fi equipment instead of American, Japanese cameras instead of German, Japanese television sets instead of American, Japanese watches instead of Swiss. The four largest motorcycle manufacturers in the United States are Honda, Yamaha, Kawasaki, and Suzuki. Twenty years ago the Japanese produced less than 100,000 automobiles, last year 100 times as many--10,000,000--about the same as the U.S. produced. Since it does not involve consumer goods, fewer Americans know that Japan produces about as much steel...