Germsn factories are run by labor-management councils so there is less of an adversarial relationship and both sides are focused on production efficiency. In the United States, Federal law prohibits labor-management councils unless the worker-members are appointed by the labor union. That explains the unusual (for America) position of the company. You kinda wonder why they didn’t just put their factory in Detroit.
To be honest most of the Europeans I have met especially Germans, Ukranians, Romanians do not care for blacks or black culture in general.
They didn’t put a factory in Detroit because they don’t want the UAW in it!
German law gives the union a seat on the board, that isn’t something German companies like VW did on their own, or thought was a swell idea.
It’s kinda like a national law that says companies have to pay protection money to the Mob, and allow them to audit the books whenever they want. They’ll keep the workers in line as long as they get their cut.