Posted on 04/18/2014 6:28:48 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
As the labor movement tells the story, two months ago, the silly, ungrateful Volkswagen factory workers in Tennessee foolishly rejected the generous invitation of the company and the United Auto Workers to welcome the Detroit-killing union with open arms.
In an election supervised by the federal National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), the workers in VW's Chattanooga plant rejected UAW representation by a vote of 712 to 626.
Amazingly, the UAW and the automaker both refuse to take the workers' "no" for an answer. The two sides are acting in unison to overturn the democratically expressed will of the workers.
Nullifying an election by fiat with the collusion of corporate management and organized labor is something we would expect to see in a nation dominated by fascism, a dangerous foreign ideology embraced by President Obama and the so-called progressives of the early twentieth century and today.
And this push to eviscerate the legal rights of VW employees is yet more proof that the management philosophy of the automobile manufacturer founded by Adolf Hitler hasn't evolved much since the fall of the Third Reich.
Many Americans don't know that in 1937, Hitler's government created the then-government-owned automobile manufacturer originally called Gesellschaft zur Vorbereitung des Deutschen Volkswagens mbH (German for "Society for the preparation of the German People's Car"). It was soon renamed Volkswagenwerk (German for "The People's Car Company").
At a 1938 National Socialist German Workers' Party rally, the Nazi dictator boasted, "It is for the broad masses that this car has been built. Its purpose is to answer their transportation needs, and it is intended to give them joy."
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Hooray for the workers.
The union should go pound sand.
The company’s position in this, is simply weird.
In partial defense of VW, they’re used to working hand in hand with German unions, which are a very different kettle of fish from the UAW.
As VW will presumably eventually discover.
Sounds like the need to get some judges from Cali involved. They don’t seem to have a problem over-ruling the voters will. Let’s see........voters said no but......we don’t care cause the pols want it to go the other way, so..........voters get to pound sand. Makes you wonder if it really is worth voting on anything.
And yes, the German unions are a whole different kettle of fish. I hope vw management knows what they’re setting themselves up for.
When a company is “infected” by a union the workers no longer work (and take orders) from you...they take them from the Union.
You lose total control of all working rules and production along with quality and pricing of your product.
You are at the total “beck and call” of the union thugs.
“Amazingly, the UAW and the automaker both refuse to take the workers’ “no” for an answer. The two sides are acting in unison to overturn the democratically expressed will of the workers.”
Amazingly, the UAW and the automaker’s German Union, both refuse to take the workers’ “no” for an answer. The two sides are acting in unison to overturn the democratically expressed will of the workers...Fixed it.
VW’s union in Germany threatened to strike if American VW plants weren’t also forced to accept a corrupt union.
Had VW the company wanted a union they would have built the plant in Detoilet, or moved back to the closed plant in PA.
They HAD a UAW controlled plant in PA in the 80’s, strike after strike forced them to close it.
The author need a history lesson on VW and the UAW before his next article.
A reasonable description of the practices of most American unions. My understanding is that German unions are quite different, and are much closer to what labor unions ought to be.
Follow the money.
You would think they would have learned about the UAW from the failed plant in New Stanton, Pennsylvania. Maybe they need another lesson.
Not when you consider the roots of VW are based in pre-WWII Nazi Germany.
Obama didn't pack the NLRB with Communists for no reason.
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.
VW has enough problems in the USA.
Perhaps they have heard of GM (aka government motors and their sales?)
I was around in the late '40s-early '50s when Germany started to pull itself out of the rubble. I remember reading that their unions, and their members, agreed to hold fast on wages and not demand increases until their economy picked up. This would not have worked anywhere else in the world except in Germany.
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.
I’ll say it again. Had the members of the Tennessee legislature not threatened VW if the Union was voted in then the UAW would still have been voted down, probably by a larger margin than it was, and the union and the Dems would not have a leg to stand on. But by threatening tax incentive if the UAW was allowed to organize in VW then the legislature left the issue wide open for charges of intimidation and abuse and left the door open for appeal. They have nobody to blame but themselves.
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