Word: toyoda
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...Toyota-GM deal has also aroused workers' anxiety. Toyota Chairman Eiji Toyoda, who signed the agreement with GM Chairman Roger Smith, said that the venture may not necessarily hire back laid-off GM employees. The companies have even stirred fears that they may try to run the plant without union labor. United Auto Workers President Douglas Fraser, who welcomes the enterprise, said last week: "Getting jobs for Americans is more important than whether or not they belong to our union." If that sounds magnanimous, it may be because Fraser is sure that without the U.A.W., there will...
Japanese automakers immediately protested the agreement. Nissan Motor President Takashi Ishihara, whose firm makes Datsuns, said he feared that it would "cast dark shadows on the system of free trade around the world." Toyota President Eiji Toyoda said he was "greatly disappointed...