Posted on 02/19/2014 5:29:01 PM PST by Colonel Kangaroo
Volkswagen = “People’s Car”...a leftover from National Socialist Germany.
Could not agree more. If VW wants unions, they should pack up and move north.
Public schools...
More properly, Government schools.
Does VW know nothing about the union agenda in America?
What causes you to believe VW doesn’t share the agenda of the unions?
Business Week: Mr. Bernd Osterloh has been the Head of works council of Porsche Automobil Holding SE since December 2008 and also its Member of Supervisory Board since January 2009. Mr. Osterloh serves as Member of Supervisory Board of Porsche Holding GmbH. He has been the Chairman of the Works Council of Volkswagen AG since 2005 and its Member of Supervisory Board since January 1, 2005.
Reuters: Mr. Bernd Osterloh has been Member of the Supervisory Board and Employee Representative at Volkswagen AG since January 1, 2005. In addition, he acts as Deputy Chairman of the Integrated Automotive Group Committee and as Member of the Presidium Committee, Mediation Committee, as well as Committee for Major Shareholder Business Relationships at the Company. Mr. Osterloh is Chairman of the Group and General Works Councils of Volkswagen AG. He serves as Member of the Supervisory Board at Autostadt GmbH, Porsche Automobil Holding SE as well as Wolfsburg AG. Furthermore, Mr. Osterloh is Board Member of Auto 5000 GmbH, Projekt Region Braunschweig GmbH, VfL Wolfsburg-Fussball GmbH and Volkswagen Coaching GmbH.
Nobody here wants to hear reality. I’ve said all along that the big automakers prefer the union to dealing with the individual.
The last union shop I worked in, they encouraged us to unionize as an independent AFL-CIO affiliate as a means of keeping the UAW out. I personally hated being in even that union but it was what it was and I had to eat.
That said, the indy union had a decent relationship with the company. We had a firm no strike clause. We didn’t make big bucks but had decent insurance. Most important the $3 per month we paid were strictly for in house use (No political activism)
Think of just how stupid that is.
The ghosts of the National Socialists are alive and well.
The VW was from the beginning designed as “The People’s Car.”
(That being the main reason I’ve never owned one.)
To hear that their management is headed by a Socialist is no surprise.
The symbolism of a VW plant in Detroit would be unnerving to say the least.
I drive a GTI. It’s my third VW in a row. They are in fact, fine cars and very high quality... nothing like the old days
Certainly did go underground. It’s scurrying back overground rapidly in its old haunts as well.
Funny enough, that’s not what Adolf called it. His name for Ferdinand Porsche’s car was the “KdF-Wagen”, taken from the name of the Nazi tourism bureau, “Kraft durch Freude” (Strength through Joy).
In Pennsylvania, VW hired GM execs and brought in the UAW.
Plant failed in 10 yrs.
In SC, BMW hired American Honda execs and avoided unions scrupulously.
Success!
Correct. They want to deal with representatives of the workers.
There is nothing wrong with that. You have to define processes and procedures and have the employees involved in this. It’s not the 20th century model of workers being antagonistic towards the bosses and vice versa.
Management and workers should be on the same team, sharing an interest in what is best for the company.
That is what VW wants.
Unfortunately, the US law is stuck in the adversarial model.
correct!.........it’s like Trumka talking.......ignore it!
much ado about nothing! If his point of view prevails let em build in one of the empty plants (that hasn’t been bulldozed) in Detroit................
I was gonna say. Surely there’s a blue state that would be happy to share a car company’s wealth with a union.
Screw them. Take their VW plants and move that crap back to Germany. Pound sand and go to hell, IMO.
As the next dicatator in the WH, I’d throw VW out of the U.S. after 1st making a deal with Nissan, Honda, Toyota or Hyundai to use the plant for building more of their cars here.
Quality inspectors are generally non union, company employees...
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