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By Nanette Asimov, San Francisco Chronicle

Marcela Alvarez builds passenger seats at the New United Motor Manufacturing Inc. plant in Fremont. She has three children and a husband who is out of work. Alvarez showed up in front of Sen. Dianne Feinstein's office in downtown San Francisco Saturday with more than 100 other Nummi workers to protest Toyota's decision to shut down the plant that employs 4,700 people and does business with more than 1,000 California companies. "Without Nummi, how can we afford to pay our mortgage, our car payments, our health insurance?" she asked. The rally was the second since Thursday, when Toyota announced it would shut the plant in March. It was also a chance for local, state and federal politicians to say they are united in trying to persuade Toyota to keep Nummi open - or to entice another automaker to move in.


Reader reaction: The UAW and probably most of the employees at NUMMI have spent the last 30 years supporting the P.C. Ecofraud "liberal" politicans who have been responsbile for enacting regulatory and tax policies that have made California the most over taxed, over regulated, anti-property rights state in the U.S.

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