This from THE NATION newspaper Dec 17, 2013

"Small and mid-size automobile businesses in Thailand are locked in an escalating battle for workers with big carmakers.
"Toyota is an important customer, but itтАЩs poaching workers from us with generous bonuses," said the manager of a small Japanese autoparts supplier in Thailand, after a college graduate the company had trained left the job after only a year to join a local Toyota affiliate.

Toyota Motor Thailand stunned the industry this year by offering annual bonuses of roughly 10 monthsтАЩ pay to its labour union.

The unionтАЩs position was fortified by the booming home market. The Thai governmentтАЩs two-year tax relief programme for first-time car buyers drove new-vehicle sales in the country to an all-time high in 2012. This kept Japanese automakers, which account for more than 90 per cent of the market, running their local factories at full capacity towards the first half of the year.

Following in ToyotaтАЩs footsteps, other carmakers and auto-part suppliers offered similar bonuses. This encouraged workers at smaller Japanese auto-part makers to jump ship to Toyota and other firms."

These are great opportunities for those that like this kind of work. As many here know, the auto industry UNIONS in America sure helped start the large middle class there too....which has been fading for several years now.