U.N. Special Report: U.S. Workers Restricted in Exercising Basic Union Rights

afl-cio ^ | 10/21/2016 | Aaron Chappell

[mdittmar]

A new report finds that the United States fails to uphold the most basic rights of workers, particularly in the South, where some states "support or collude with employers to infringe upon workers’ rights to peaceful assembly and association." The report cited examples such as Tennessee officials’ opposition to unionization at a Volkswagen plant and the "government of Mississippi [which] touts the lack of unionization as a great benefit when courting potential employers."

[mdittmar]

The afl-cio and the u.n.,what a combination;)

[falcon99]

More Leftist BS from the UN. The only organization that has a bigger Leftist agenda than the Democrats is the UN. Truth doesn’t matter to either.

[Mr. Douglas]

I think Tennessee wants to keep the Volkswagen plant in the state.

[Grimmy]

US Speical Report: UN is an enemy org and should be treated as such.

[Mr. Douglas]

I pass by the Jim Beam strikers on my way to work every day. I understand their complaint is too much overtime.

I gotta admit that at some of the wages around here, mandatory overtime is akin to slavery. All you do is work and sleep and still don’t get paid much for it.

[bigredkitty1]

They make it sound like a bad thing.

[mdittmar]

I love overtime,get time and a half,you in a union?

[Alberta's Child]

That was a strange case. From what I understand, Volkswagen actually wanted the union because they apparently figured it was easier to run a union plant when all their plants in Germany are unionized. It was the state government in Tennessee that mounted a campaign to keep the workers from joining a union.

[Mr. Douglas]

I’m not union. I’m an IT contractor. I’m purely hourly and do get time and a half for overtime. But I make roughly three times what these guys make.

That’s the thing. Overtime is trading your life for money. And even though it “seems” like a lot, in the end, it isn’t. It’s better to work your 8 hours (less if possible) and take back your life. Overtime is good for emergency funds or paying for a vacation, but if you start depending on it you have become a slave. An indentured slave, but a slave nonetheless.

[mdittmar]

Tennessee that mounted a campaign to keep the workers from joining a union

How did they do that?

[mdittmar]

I’m not union either,work hard,get paid well,get good benefits and 7 weeks paid vacation a year.

[Alberta's Child]

When Volkswagen was negotiating with the State of Tennessee for a number of tax incentives at its Chattanooga plant, state officials quietly made the incentives contingent upon a “No” vote by the employees in the UAW organizing vote in 2014.

[mdittmar]

So the employees that voted were just a bunch of dummies.

[jiggyboy]

You can always tell the agenda when they use an all-encompassing phrase like “workers’ rights to peaceful assembly and association” instead of using the more correct phrase “worker’s rights to unionize”.

See also “womens’ health”.

[Chaguito]

U.N. and AFL-CIO. Well, there it is. Must be true.

[Alberta's Child]

??

[mdittmar]

Did they vote?

[Alberta's Child]

They narrowly rejected the UAW in 2014.

[mdittmar]

Well,it’s good they were allowed to vote.

[factoryrat]

That depends on the prevailing wage scale of the mexican auto worker.

If Tennessee can keep the pay scale less than $12 an hour for production workers, and less than $25 an hour with subsidized health care and benefits all in, and Tennessee keeps providing tax breaks and subsidies, then the work will probably stay for now.

One thing that most people don’t realize is that mexico has become the #1 automaker in the western hemisphere. All of the suppliers and parts plants are down in mexico now.

What’s left in the US is mainly assembly plants and corporate headquarters.

The only reason they haven’t been moved down to mexico is the still unstable socialist narco oligarchy that runs the government down there.