Toyota workers warned

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Originally Posted by SumoDog68

4hour entitlement as you call it is not what is sending car manufacturing broke . It is equivalent of an individual giving $2 to children's hospital appeal - or you are against that too ?

If every employee gave blood 4 times a year, or approximately once every 12 weeks as advised by the red cross, a total loss of production time would equate to; 2500 (staff in Altona) x 4 hours each x 4 times per year. or 40,000 hours lost. an average hourly rate of pay might be $40 so a wage loss of 1.6 million. However loss per employee may be 2-3 times that due to overheads so possibly circa 4+ million dollars per year. which in itself equates to 40+ bucks per car or over 1 percent of the saving necessary. And I think Toyota is only asking for a reduction from 4 to 2 hours.

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