Posted on 12/09/2014 3:31:11 AM PST by Olog-hai
The United Auto Workers gained a partial and unconventional recognition from Volkswagen AG after proving to the company that it represents at least 45 percent of workers at the company’s plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, a company spokesman said on Monday.
The union on Monday said membership at its Local 42 in Chattanooga “exceeds a majority of workers at the plant.”
It is the first time the UAW has been recognized at a foreign-owned auto assembly plant in the South, but it is short of the UAW’s goal of attaining exclusive bargaining rights for all of the plant’s 1,500 blue-collar workers. […]
An alternative union, the American Council of Employees, has support from both blue- and white-collar employees, said Sean Moss, president of the new union in Chattanooga. However, as of last Friday the ACE group had not filed a list of its supporters to be audited. …
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More robots.
VW likes robots. They’re replacing retiring workers with them in Germany too.
So does that mean the state of Tennessee is going to cancel its financial incentives like they threatened to?
These guys are a cancer!
They’ve got indirect support from IG Metall.
Camel nose under the tent....
Unions and international communism are the creation of the financial elites.
It’s about squashing small business, getting rid of notion of the sheeple owning private property.
People who stay in unions have no idea who they’re really working for.
They are not aware but they are working for the most evil, totalitarian, violent masters they can imagine when they join a union, basically like a Rockefeller and a Stalin all rolled into one.
Only if their manufacturing defect kills 38 people and they lie about will they be guaranteed a taxpayer bailout.
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