UAW Union Suffers Crippling Defeat in Tennessee

Rightwingpatriot.com ^ | February 17, 2014 | Rightwingerpatriot

[JeanLM]

When an organizing drive is featured as national news, has a president’s backing, and has a neutral corporate employer in the election, with union members on its board of directors, and the union loses the election, yes it is a crippling and remarkable defeat.

[Islander2]

[53%-47% is a “crippling” defeat?]

I agree on the “crippling” description not being the best choice of words. I prefer the “absolute, utter, humiliating”,loss the union goons were handed.

[eyedigress]

This is Chattanooga we are talking about. It is more left than Knoxville or Smyrna, but not by much.

VW will compare its record against the UAW any day. This was proven.

The UAW has no say in how to govern a motor company. Greed rots from within.

[nascarnation]

The anti-union campaign was well run.

I saw an interview with some workers who asked “why would I vote in a union that supports gun control and abortion?”

[DJ MacWoW]

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[caver]

No, it wasn’t a crippling defeat. The UAW crippled themselves by years of corruption and all other sorts of illegal activities. Some people are getting the message that unions are not for the workers, they are for the union bosses.

[Trod Upon]

If you own a business and the shop unionizes, move it—offshore it if necessary. If those aren’t options, just shut ‘er down and let the site rot.

[blueunicorn6]

The union dues for government employees are going to go up.

[rightwingerpatriot]

RE: “UAW Union Suffers Crippling Defeat in Tennessee”
53%-47% is a “crippling” defeat?

I honestly thought that the UAW would win. I've had relatives who have worked in businesses that unions have crept into and have heard plenty of the persuasive hard sell (or outright lies) that are used to sway workers. Remember while most of the South is right-to-work, there are plenty of unions in the public sector, such as teachers, police, etc., so there are plenty who are skeptical of unions but aren't outright hostile to them as they know or are related to people who are in them. I'm sure that the UAW poured a great deal of resources into this, so I'm stoked that that money has been wasted.

[PGalt]

HOORAY 712! There are enough parasitic hands in your pocket. Have you looked at your pay stub?

The BIGGEST hands before your money gets to your pocket is BIG GOVERNMENT & BIG INSURANCE (socialization of risk). FICA-MED, U.S. FICA, FED INC TAX, STATE INC TAX, sometimes CITY INC TAX.

The BIGGEST hands in all of your pockets as your money leaves is BIG GOVERNMENT (just about everything you purchase with what remains of your paycheck is taxed to feed the BIG GOVERNMENT SOCIALIST LEVIATHAN).

You are being plundered by socialist parasites.

BIG GOVERNMENT IS CRONY SOCIALISM (unions are an integral part of BIG GOVERNMENT)

HOORAY 712!

[sickoflibs]

Does the NLRB shut down that plant to punish the employees for this vote?

[dearolddad]

And perhaps workers didn’t like the fact that union dues would be taken from their pay. I don’t know how much the union dues would have been, but, if they were satisfied with their pay and benefits already, any amount of union dues would be money they would resent being taken from them.

I've read somewhere that it would be $650.00 per month to start.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Wow, 650 per month for union dues????

So, if they were already satisfied with pay and benefits, these guys had to think about what a union would do for them? And then thinking about so much in union dues to pay? Then it seems clear why they voted down the union.

I heard that these guys at VW already earn more than their counterparts at union auto plants. I’m sure they had to wonder what additional benefit they would get from a union.