Big Box Ban - Thoughts?

[Carolann R]

Arizona is a "Right to Work" State. Basically, that means there are little to no unions in the entire state...it shocked me coming from both New York State and California where unions are everywhere.

Tony has worked for Toyota dealerships for nearly 23 years. We moved here last year and it's the first time he's in a union. He makes less than he did in Arizona. And if they didn't pay him union scale we would starve.

The dealerships are all owned privately (well, that's complicated - privately to a certain extent). The Hawaii dealerships are all a part of SERVCO but some are owned by the DeLuz family. They don't have to market themselves or run their shops according to Toyota's standards which they hold the Mainland dealerships to. On the Mainland Tony's boss owned dealerships in So. Cal. and two in Scottsdale and they had to answer directly to Toyota Japan for their bottom line. They even get audited by Toyota Japan. Here in Hawaii it would be SERVCO that oversees them.

The unfortunate thing is that the amazing technology that Toyota required his dealership to use in Scottsdale, they think is too expensive and not necessary here in Hawaii and they don't even consider it. So - it makes the service guy's job more difficult. It's more difficult to diagnose problems, more difficult to order parts, etc. Things are very behind here in comparison. (No big shock, right?)

Sorry, hope I didn't get too off-track. )

Carrie

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