[zeestephen]

RE: “UAW Union Suffers Crippling Defeat in Tennessee”

53%-47% is a “crippling” defeat?

[nascarnation]

I think the long term implications are what is described as “crippling”.

If the UAW had won, the journ-0-lists would have had a union-gasm and they were prepared to assault Mercedes Alabama, and a bunch of other plants.

The reality is that if you subtract out all the healthcare workers and govt employees, the UAW is shrinking faster than Obama’s approval rating.

[Buckeye McFrog]

It lost by 86 votes, and 165 employees apparently did not bother to vote.

Something tells me Obama’s NRLB is gonna give ‘em a mulligan.

[JeanLM]

When an organizing drive is featured as national news, has a president’s backing, and has a neutral corporate employer in the election, with union members on its board of directors, and the union loses the election, yes it is a crippling and remarkable defeat.

[Islander2]

[53%-47% is a “crippling” defeat?]

I agree on the “crippling” description not being the best choice of words. I prefer the “absolute, utter, humiliating”,loss the union goons were handed.

[rightwingerpatriot]

RE: “UAW Union Suffers Crippling Defeat in Tennessee”
53%-47% is a “crippling” defeat?

I honestly thought that the UAW would win. I've had relatives who have worked in businesses that unions have crept into and have heard plenty of the persuasive hard sell (or outright lies) that are used to sway workers. Remember while most of the South is right-to-work, there are plenty of unions in the public sector, such as teachers, police, etc., so there are plenty who are skeptical of unions but aren't outright hostile to them as they know or are related to people who are in them. I'm sure that the UAW poured a great deal of resources into this, so I'm stoked that that money has been wasted.