Posted on 02/20/2014 1:44:36 PM PST by Olog-hai
Volkswagen’s top labor representative threatened on Wednesday to try to block further investments by the German carmaker in the southern United States if its workers there are not unionized.
Workers at VW’s factory in Chattanooga, Tennessee, last Friday voted against representation by the United Auto Workers union (UAW), rejecting efforts by VW representatives to set up a German-style works council at the plant.
German workers enjoy considerable influence over company decisions under the legally enshrined “co-determination” principle which is anathema to many politicians in the U.S. who see organized labor as a threat to profits and job growth. …
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Lied? A car salesman? Can’t trust anyone anymore, I guess.
(the guy who sold me my Chattanooga-built Passat told me at least 3 times that it was manufactured in Germany).
Anyways, the Puebla plant is a union shop, but I don’t think it’s UAW.
>> Then the salesman lied as he said it was here.
If a car salesman told me the sky was blue, I’d go outside and see for myself.
Yes but still fun to drive. Zoom,Zoom!
I drive a VW. It may be because I am weird, but I don’t see the point of your hateful generalization.
“I can imagine fairly well that another VW factory in the United States, provided that one more should still be set up there, does not necessarily have to be assigned to the south again,” said Bernd Osterloh, head of VW’s works council.
“If co-determination isn’t guaranteed in the first place, we as workers will hardly be able to vote in favor” of potentially building another plant in the U.S. south, Osterloh, who is also on VW’s supervisory board, said.
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Osterloh’s comments were published on Wednesday in German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung. A spokesman at the Wolfsburg-based works council confirmed the remarks.
“The conservatives stirred up massive, anti-union sentiments,” Osterloh said. “It’s possible that the conclusion will be drawn that this interference amounted to unfair labor praxis.”
I had heard about this comment from VW in Germany so I wrote the letter.
And they don’t have any corruption? Come on. They taught it to us.
On the other hand - other car manufacturers - indeed, other manufacturere, period, may sse going to GA as a big NON-Union PLUS....
Hang tough
The Third Reich didn’t call it the Volkswagen. That entity called it the KdF-Wagen.
Then form your own independent union that isn’t a bunch of political BS. The UAW killed us in Michigan.
You don’t want the social market economy in the USA. No need to go there. Bad enough that the liberals are trying to bring it over piecemeal.
They said that only wierdos drive VWs. Who am I to doubt them?
Heck no - you are in debt enough already without that! German companies, on the whole, seem to have a less adversarial Industrial Relations system that has served them and their economy well for a log time. It is peculiar to them as their obsession with quality has allowed their companies to charge a premium for their goods. The gap however has gotten a lot closer over the years so their advantage in this area has mostly been swallowed up yet people still, for awhile at least, continue to buy from them on reputation alone - I wonder how much longer that will continue and I wonder what will happen to their IR then?
Germany dominates in the non-consumer market in many areas along with Japan. They are doing huge business with China.
Most of business is B to B and is something consumers never see.
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