What causes you to believe VW doesn’t share the agenda of the unions?
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)
Maybe VW has a different take on unions that they way they operate in America. Here they are largely adversarial to business.