Toyota to appeal Federal Court injunction Toyota is appealing the Federal Court's decision which has the potential to affect its local manufacturing future. Toyota Australia has appealed a Federal Court injunction preventing it from putting a revised workplace agreement vote to its Melbourne manufacturing employees. He granted an injunction filed against Toyota by four senior workers, meaning the company would first have to seek a variation from its employees through a vote before the broader agreement could be put to workers. In a statement issued on Thursday, Toyota confirmed it had lodged an appeal to the decision, which could have a significant bearing on the car maker's future standing in Australia. "The Federal Court last week granted an injunction to stop Toyota Australia from varying its Workplace Agreement terms and conditions," the company said. Toyota Australia has today lodged an appeal in relation to this decision. The Australian Manufacturing Workers Union urged Toyota to hold further discussions on the issue, rather than let the matter run through the courts. "They'll appeal the decision but I would hope that they would come to the table and have some sensible discussions with us, so that you wouldn't need to go through that," AMWU vehicle division secretary Dave Smith said. We've always said it was the process and the manner in which the company went through the process that got under our nose. Toyota says it needs to make $17 million worth of productivity improvements to make its Australian manufacturing operations more viable. Holden underwent a similar vote with its workers in August, though Smith said Toyota has been less forthcoming with its proposed variations. "I'd certainly like to see a sit-down discussion with the company and try and work through our differences," Smith said. There was some fairly extensive discussions between a number of senior officials and Holden before we actually got to the point where the concept of a variation was introduced to the broader audience of officials and shop stewards. In that case, people actually understood what it was that we were talking about: there was some agreements reached with the company that allowed an independent person to come in and review their business case etcetera. It's been a very different proposal put up by Toyota, but we'd been hopeful that we can actually sit down at the table and discuss to come up with some sort of resolution to it.