Tennessee Volkswagen plant rejects unionization

Associated Press ^ | June 15, 2019

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Workers at Volkswagen’s plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, voted Friday night against forming a factory-wide union, handing a setback to the United Auto Workers’ efforts to gain a foothold among foreign auto facilities in the South.

The vote of hourly workers began Wednesday and concluded Friday. Preliminary results show 833 employees voted against representation and 776 voted for it, the German automaker said in a statement. VW said about 93% of the roughly 1,700 eligible employees voted.

“Our employees have spoken,” Frank Fischer, president and CEO of Volkswagen Chattanooga, said in the company statement.

He said results are pending certification by the National Labor Relations Board and legal review. Fischer said the company looks forward to “continuing our close cooperation with elected officials and business leaders in Tennessee.”

Volkswagen has union representation at all of its other major plants worldwide. …

[Gay State Conservative]

The UAW President makes $200K/yr...and you can be sure that there's a sweet benefits package that goes with it.

And you can also be sure that there are at least a thousand others who are making $100k/yr...plus.And that kind of money goes a long,long way in states like MI,OH,IN and KY.

[Oatka]

especially so with the UAW which drove the domestic auto manufacturers into the ground.

Back in the '70s, I worked with a guy who said he lucked out with his General Motors automobile, bragging that he got a "Wednesday" car.???

I asked what that meant and he said the GM car workers were still hungover on Monday and Tuesday from the weekend and did slovenly work. Thursday and Friday they were looking forward to the weekend and did the same. Wednesday was that narrow point in time when they turned out a decent quality vehicle.