Hard to believe VW execs and legal is ignorant, easier to believe they're still Fascists.
Loss at Volkswagen plant upends union’s plan for U.S. South
By Bernie Woodall
CHATTANOOGA, Tennessee Sat Feb 15, 2014 1:33am EST
National Right to Work Foundation President Mark Mix hailed the outcome: “If UAW union officials cannot win when the odds are so stacked in their favor, perhaps they should re-evaluate the product they are selling to workers.”
Before the results were announced, King had said in an interview with Reuters that his group and the German union were already at work organizing a Daimler AG factory in Alabama.
Mike Burton, one of the anti-union leaders, cheered the results. “Not on our watch,” he exulted, adding, as did VW management, that plans to find a way for a workers council to help set rules for the factory would continue.
Many labor experts have said that a workers council, which is used in Germany, would not be possible at a U.S. VW factory without a union.
“We felt like we were already being treated very well by Volkswagen in terms of pay and benefits and bonuses,” said Sean Moss, who voted against the UAW. “We also looked at the track record of the UAW. Why buy a ticket on the Titanic?” he added.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/15/us-autos-vw-election-idUSBREA1D1DP20140215
I had a job at VW for a few weeks. I resigned because they were really looking a seasoned project manager, not a nuts and bolts business analyst.
The germans in mgt. came off as being pretty out of touch, and one german guy I’m sure was gay and just at his job I suspect for hunting other men.
They seem to be completely German and have no interest in learning the culture.
Very different from working at a company that has an American culture.