Toyota workers are preparing to vote on a new workplace agreement as the broader car industry considers its future in Australia.
Toyota is seeking the agreement with 2500 workers at its Altona plant in Victoria, which will make 106,000 cars this year, mostly for export.
The company has put in place a project known as the Toyota Australia Future Business Transformation for the period 2012 to 2018, aimed at improving efficiencies and cutting $3800 out of the cost of building a car in Australia.
Workers on Friday will vote on a new workplace agreement which the company says is about "improving flexibility and removing out-dated and uncompetitive practices and allowances that increase labour costs and reduce global competitiveness".
The company has said it will honour two scheduled pay rises in 2014, at a cost of $17 million, ahead of the new agreement starting in 2015.
Details of the terms and conditions have been the subject of talks in recent months.
About 2500 Holden workers in South Australia earlier this year accepted a pay freeze, as the company considers its future, and Ford has announced it will stop making cars in Australia from 2016.
Toyota shed 350 employees from Altona in early 2012 as part of its restructuring and offered 100 voluntary redundancies in October.
