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VW workers at Tennessee plant reject union
Associated Press ^ | Feb. 14, 2014 10:05 PM EST | Erik Schelzig and Tom Krisher

Posted on 02/14/2014 7:16:40 PM PST by Olog-hai

Edited on 02/14/2014 7:28:26 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) — Workers at a Volkswagen factory in Tennessee have voted against union representation, a devastating loss that derails the United Auto Workers union's effort to organize Southern factories.

The 712-626 vote released late Friday stunned many labor experts who expected a UAW win because Volkswagen tacitly endorsed the union and even allowed organizers into the Chattanooga factory to make sales pitches.

The UAW for decades has tried without success to organize a foreign-owned plant in a region that's wary of organized labor. The loss now makes it even harder for the union to recruit members at another Southern factory.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Front Page News; US: Tennessee
KEYWORDS: bobcorker; liberalagenda; tennessee; uaw; unions; unionthugs; volkswagen; vw
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To: Army Air Corps

RAT heads are exploding this very minute... check it out

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014728291


41 posted on 02/14/2014 9:11:13 PM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: Chode


42 posted on 02/14/2014 9:12:56 PM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: Olog-hai

God blessed Tenn. Dolly Parton and anti-union.


43 posted on 02/14/2014 9:13:27 PM PST by Foundahardheadedwoman (God don't have a statute of limitations)
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To: Chode

Their tears are DELICIOUS!


44 posted on 02/14/2014 9:39:37 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Army Air Corps
like nectar... i couldn't stop laughing!!! screw-em

45 posted on 02/14/2014 9:47:22 PM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: cdcdawg

I wonder if a lot of those workers are from the (now defunct) Saturn operation.


46 posted on 02/14/2014 11:27:21 PM PST by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
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To: Olog-hai
YES!!!
47 posted on 02/14/2014 11:41:02 PM PST by BlessedBeGod (Democrats are Cruz'n for a Bruisin' in 2016. / Obama=Unspeakable Audacity)
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To: Arthurio

‘Tacitly endorsed’ is misleading I think; I don’t think that management had the power to prevent the union from infiltrating their plant.


48 posted on 02/15/2014 12:01:56 AM PST by bakeneko
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To: Olog-hai

Obama will have his stooges at the NLRB declare the vote invalid because the union lost....


49 posted on 02/15/2014 12:43:22 AM PST by Popman ("Resistance to Tyrants is Obedience to God" - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Olog-hai

I’m wondering how far a company can go in threatening a unionization effort? “You unionize, we shut down/move”


50 posted on 02/15/2014 4:19:30 AM PST by bjorn14 (Woe to those who call good evil and evil good. Isaiah 5:20)
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To: cripplecreek

I’m surprised they haven’t had him killed. Seriously.


51 posted on 02/15/2014 6:25:44 AM PST by cdcdawg (Be seeing you...)
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To: Chode

Thank you for that link. Enjoyable reading first thing in the AM!


52 posted on 02/15/2014 6:33:40 AM PST by Rusty0604
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To: Rusty0604
most welcome...

why does To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women. come to mind??? 8^)

53 posted on 02/15/2014 6:41:10 AM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: Olog-hai

Funny how elections can work when the electorate is fixed, such as the total number of employees working at a factory.
You cant pack in numbers with community activists, bus in bums and college students,,etc.


54 posted on 02/15/2014 7:47:00 AM PST by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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To: DesertRhino
Funny how elections can work when the electorate is fixed, such as the total number of employees working at a factory. You cant pack in numbers with community activists, bus in bums and college students,,etc.

Exactly.

55 posted on 02/15/2014 7:49:09 AM PST by denydenydeny (Admiration of absolute government is proportionate to the contempt one has for others.-Tocqueville)
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To: Olog-hai

Keeping organized crime out of the extortion racket is never a bad move.


56 posted on 02/15/2014 8:06:47 AM PST by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed.)
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To: Chode

And we say to them what they say to us.

“We won, you lost”

Now, go eff yourselves.


57 posted on 02/15/2014 8:12:39 AM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: unixfox
100%!!!
58 posted on 02/15/2014 8:17:22 AM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: DesertRhino

This is why unions have been demanding card check.

I imagine this will spur renewed calls for it.


59 posted on 02/15/2014 8:29:46 AM PST by tanknetter
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To: Foundahardheadedwoman

You do know Dolly is a liberal Dem ?


60 posted on 02/15/2014 9:02:35 AM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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