Story summarizes an investigative report published last month by The National Labor Committee (NLC) regarding the treatment of workers by Toyota in Japan. Workers are imported from Burma and China and passports are confiscated. A 30 year old employee died after working 85-hour work weeks prior to his death. The NLC published his time cards, which reveal that he had worked 106.5 to 155 hours of overtime in the 30 days prior up to his death. Toyota did not want to pay the overtime to his widow indicating that extra hours are “voluntary quality control activities”. http://www.nlcnet.org/article.php?id=562 to the NLC study and sources are listed at the end of the study. With this story and the NY Times last year reporting that Toyota is planning on reducing labor costs in North America by cutting health care costs http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/04/business/04uaw.html?n=Top/Reference/Times%20Topics/Subjects/O/Organized%20Labor Americans might reconsider the purchase of a Prius.