I sympathize with the general point, but Toyota is also the fourth largest employer of unionized auto workers. They've been careful about threading the needle between competitive effectiveness and appeasing the unions to avoid getting legislated out of existence by "friends in high places". They have an advantage over the legacy auto manufacturers, though, in that they weren't here in the 70s to make the stupendously bad decisions that the unions have handcuffed the Big Three to.

(Though I guess the whole "the clever hawk hides his claws" thing is not working that well this year.)