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U.S. union UAW close to organizing at Volkswagen plant: paper
Reuters ^ | 9/12/2013

Posted on 09/12/2013 2:53:51 AM PDT by markomalley

Volkswagen's factory at Chattanooga, Tennessee, is close to becoming the first U.S. car assembly plant run by a foreign company to have its workers officially represented by the United Auto Workers (UAW) union, a German paper reported.

"Yes, we have a majority," UAW boss Bob King was quoted saying by business daily Handelsblatt in a preview of an article to be published on Friday.

More than 50 percent of the employees at the plant, which according to VW figures numbered 2,415, had signed union cards and registered as future union members, the paper said.

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To: GoreFreeTN

Never was the biggest PB fan but he was OK. Stephanie Z was the better part of the pair and did give the little vw rabbit some character.

I have all the DVDs and an autographed copy of the RS book plus some autographed theater stuff SZ signed that came with it.


41 posted on 09/12/2013 6:35:49 AM PDT by wally_bert (There are no winners in a game of losers. I'm Tommy Joyce, welcome to the Oriental Lounge.)
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0-60 in six seconds is somewhat pedestrian these days.


42 posted on 09/12/2013 7:27:19 AM PDT by Rodney Dangerfield (Ask the MSM about Christopher Newsom and Channon Christian. Observe the subsequent blank stares.)
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To: Fresh Wind
production facilities in Mexico.

And Brazil...

43 posted on 09/12/2013 11:47:31 AM PDT by NoCmpromiz (John 14:6 is a non-pluralistic comment.)
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To: markomalley

VW might just want to close shop if that happens.


44 posted on 09/12/2013 11:51:30 AM PDT by GeronL
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To: markomalley

Is TN a union state?


45 posted on 09/12/2013 11:51:45 AM PDT by GeronL
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To: JerseyHighlander

Corker is upset that AL Qaeda didn’t get a kickback in the deal


46 posted on 09/12/2013 11:56:01 AM PDT by GeronL
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To: markomalley

Auf Wiedersehen, Tennessee.


47 posted on 09/12/2013 11:56:53 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Alter Kaker

So, what happens in a right to work state to the workers who don’t want to join the union??


48 posted on 09/12/2013 11:57:25 AM PDT by GeronL
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Is TN a union state?

Tennessee is, and always has been, a right to work state.

There are some unions but it is basically a right to work state.

49 posted on 09/12/2013 11:59:06 AM PDT by VideoDoctor
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To: VideoDoctor

bump


50 posted on 09/12/2013 12:03:29 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: Rodney Dangerfield
0-60 in six seconds is somewhat pedestrian these days.

That's pretty fast for a pedestrian.

Oh, and that car that was mentioned was introduced in that form in 1999. It's still a chick car, though.

51 posted on 09/13/2013 2:11:26 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
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