Posted on 02/19/2014 5:29:01 PM PST by Colonel Kangaroo
Don’t they already have enough quality problems without bringing unions in?
That would certainly qualify for the Irony of the Day Award.
We have a huge BMW plant in Greer, SC and they employ nearly 8,000 and are doing fine. In fact, they are hiring now.
VW = Trojan Horse.
This is why VW stays #3 . . . even Government Motors is still #2 behind Toyota.
I wonder how much the BIG labor thugs paid this clown to say stupid stuff for them. I’ll bet they bought him pretty cheap.
Global Works Council! Go back to Germany and your workers paradise! Better yet, move VW to Detroit. I’m sure you can find some will union employees.
Sounds like someone needs to either amend the Labor Relations Act, or start a new union that is independent of both VW or the UAW.
Stupid law if you can’t hold meetings with your employees to discuss the products and processes of manufacture without having a union.
the NLRB should not control how a company structures its workforce. If they want a council they should have one. Most have a labor/management safety committee. I hate doing these things by legislation but this may be necessary to reduce the NLRB’s power over the internal working of an industrial plant.
VW’S SUCK.
We can do without VW.
For lurkers who might not know, VW also owns Audi, Porsche, Lamborghini, Bentley and Ducati, as well as a couple other brands that aren’t sold in the US.
Sounds like someone needs to either amend the Labor Relations Act, or start a new union that is independent of both VW or the UAW.
Stupid law if you can’t hold meetings with your employees to discuss the products and processes of manufacture without having a union.
OK,fair enough.But the *other* car makers will take up your slack.Honda,Toyota.Hyundai,BMW....it’s not a coincidence that they located in the South rather than in Michigan,Indiana,Ohio,etc.
Agree.
If I understand the problem correctly, VW doesn’t want unionization, they want a workers council, whatever that is. Under US law for some reason, a car plant that isn’t unionized can’t have a workers council. On top of that, a car plant can’t apparently unionize unless they do it under the UAW.
In other words, VW doesn’t “want” the union, it wants the freedom to be a more responsive company to its workers, a freedom currently outlawed by the US government unless the UAW gets its cut first.
What kind of drugs is this guy taking?
Funny but nowhere in the article dos it say a “Works Council” according to US law must be represented by the UAW...
They are making the mistake of equating UAW union goons with German unions.
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