NoUAW.com, a website sponsored by Toyota team members who oppose the UAW, denounces newly elected UAW President Bob King and his plan to continue to “pound Toyota” until they force their team members to join the UAW. The public deserves to know the truth about how the UAW continues to disrespect Toyota team members.

For over 23 years Toyota team members have been subjected to harassment, intimidation, threats and lies at the hands of union organizers. It should come as no surprise that Toyota Team Members have freely exercised their first amendment right by continually rejecting the UAW.

Mr. King’s comments indicate that the UAW intends to corral Toyota team members through the use of a corporate smear campaign. The UAW intends to use media ads, news articles, emails, letters and pickets in its efforts to force Toyota to hand over its team members to the UAW.

The “pledge” Mr. King insists Toyota must sign may include the following requirements: mandatory UAW “informational” meetings with Toyota Team Members, release of all team members personal information to the UAW and a gag order preventing management from answering team members questions and concerns regarding the UAW. These are just a few examples of the items the UAW’s “pledge” may require.

For years the UAW has proclaimed that joining the UAW would give workers a voice. How ironic and revealing that their corporate smear campaign, if successful, would deny Toyota team members a voice in deciding their future.

The decision on whether to unionize should be decided by Toyota team members utilizing a secret ballot election, supervised by a neutral third party.

Recently, Mr. King and the UAW showed further evidence of their disdain for Toyota team members when they forced Kansas City Business Journal reporter James Dornbrook to remove his Georgetown, KY built Camry from the union hall parking lot in Kansas City.

According to Cars.com, Georgetown Built Toyota Camrys have the highest American content of any vehicle sold in North America.

As UAW membership has declined from 1.5 million in 1979 to 355,000 last year, the UAW has become more desperate in its attempts to unionize workers at US factories of overseas automakers.

Given the UAW’s double talk, it is not surprising the UAW has failed miserably in its attempts to unionize Toyota and other transplant factories such as Honda, BMW, Nissan, Hyundai, Kia and Mercedes. Today’s auto industry workers know that unionization is the love child of Greed and Stupidity.

To see the devastating effects of the UAW look no further than Michigan. Michigan’s unemployment rate, at more than 14%, is one of the highest in the nation.

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