[Buckeye McFrog]

Unions by law have representation on corporate boards in Germany. Hence they can stop VW from putting any more plants in the South if they don’t like the outcome of this election.

[TStro]

Switch to Toyota production. We’ll stop buying VW’s in the south and see how they like that.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Only weirdos drive VWs anyway.

[ohioman]

I hate German Communists. By trying to peddle this union crap in the South, I hope they are met with violent opposition, if it is needed. They can build their next plant in Hell.

[amnestynone]

Wasn’t VW Hitlers little innovation?

[kidd]

Well it only took a week for the union to resort to the next level of mob tactics.

They’ll force unions on these workers one way or another.

[blueunicorn6]

“And I’m gonna take my ball and go home and tell my Mommy!”

[Linda Frances]

Sent this letter to VW.

My husband and I bought a VW Passat TDI. We were glad to hear that the union did not win in the south. Now VW home office says they might not want to build cars in south if union doesn’t get in? If they want to get into US politics, maybe we should no longer buy VW’s. Please express our concern.

[Political Junkie Too]

Why can't our Republican leaders learn how not to take No for an answer?

-PJ

[oldenuff2no]

My line of thought runs a bit different here. This is a very important vote not because of how VW thinks about more auto plants here but because of how the rest of the foreign auto companies view it.

This maintains the right to work non union atmosphere of the south. I believe that other auto makers will build plants in that area because of this decision.

I do not see how anything that VW now claims about this decision has any further relevance. They are not going to close a plant that is already built, in production, and making them money.

This is one more lesson to the liberals that clearly demonstrates that we are not Europe and not going to be either.

This whole line of crap in the media is nothing more than the leftist socialist lies and spin of the UAW after it lost a vote that was gift wrapped and handed to them on a silver platter.

What this vote says is that the auto workers themselves have chosen to not let the UAW do to them what it did to the auto industry and to the workers in Detroit, Flint, and other cities. In those places the UAW took their own members money and then caused them to loose their jobs. The union hierarchy got filthy mega-rich and the out of work union members got food stamps and poverty.

This is why the UAW is dieing.

[tanknetter]

This is pretty decent evidence of collusion between the VW German union and the UAW.

[cherry]

please Germany, Japan, Korea, etc....don’t bother coming here....we have an ungrateful evil greedy and criminal system and you’ll be under their thumb to your demise...

[Blackyce]

As the Worker's Council Reps are a part of management(unlike Senator Corker), I'm pretty sure that those statements were a violation of the Taft Hartley Act:

There are six types of unfair trade practices listed in Section 8:
1. Section 8 (a)(1) - to interfere with, restrain, or coerce employees in the exercise of rights guaranteed in Section 7:
2. Section 8(a)(2) - to dominate or interfere with the formation or administration of a union, or contribute financial or other support to it;
3. Section 8(a)(3) — by discrimination in regard to hire or tenure of employment, to encourage or discourage membership in any union;
4. Section 8(a)(4) - to discharge or otherwise discriminate against an employee because he has filed charges or given testimony under the Act;
5. Section 8(a)(5) - to refuse to bargain collectively with a union selected by a majority of the employees in an appropriate bargaining unit;
6. Section 8(e) - to enter into a “hot-cargo” agreement with a union.

People should call the VW management out on it, like the left tried to do with Senator Corker.

[PGR88]

I would never buy a VW, union or not.

[jocon307]

What, now the owners of the company are going to force people to join a union?

I don’t see that flying in any right to work state.

[Wuli]

as the next dictator, I’d tell VW to go home; there are more than enough world automakers who would take over their Chattanooga plant

[backwoods-engineer]

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.

I think this is called tortious interference, and is illegal.

[Fledermaus]

Funny how this is on top of the liberals agenda when Nissan in Smyrna, TN has voted down the UAW every other year for over 20 years.

[BfloGuy]

Fascinating.

Maybe, VW just shouldn't produce in the U.S.. They abandoned their first effort [Pennsylvania, I think?] in the seventies. Was glad to see them come back, but as much as I admire the Germans, VW's management can stuff it.

[Gay State Conservative]

I have avoided UAW made cars since 1990.I just bought a German car a few weeks ago and VW was a strong contender.If they go union here I promise VW that they'll never be on my short list again.My driveway is,always will be,and has been for decades,a UAW free zone.