Here ya' go (along with a YESSS! each from me and the Mrs.)
Posted on 02/14/2014 7:44:45 PM PST by Innovative
In a stunning defeat that could accelerate the decades-long decline of the United Auto Workers, employees voted against union representation at Volkswagen AG's Chattanooga, Tennessee, plant, a factory seen as organized labor's best chance to expand in the U.S. South.
An official overseeing the vote, retired judge Sam Payne, said that a majority had voted against UAW representation by 712 to 626.
While voting was under way on Wednesday, Republican U.S. Senator Bob Corker said VW would announce new investment in the plant if the UAW lost the secret ballot.
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UAW got Burnt.....
Got Burnt old school.
The UAW said it would "evaluate" the conduct in the vote, where 89 percent of eligible workers cast ballots.
Here comes the demands for recounts and boxes full of ballots magically appearing in the trunk of someone's car.
Obama weighed in, too:
Obama weighs in on contentious union vote at Volkswagen plant
Reuters ^ | 02/14/2014 | Richard Cowan & Bernie Woodall
Posted on Friday, February 14, 2014 2:16:38 PM by Rusty0604
P resident Barack Obama on Friday waded into a high-stakes union vote at Volkswagen AG’s plant in Tennessee, accusing Republican politicians who oppose unionization of being more concerned about German shareholders than U.S. workers.
Obama’s interjection in the war of words on Friday, albeit behind closed doors, underscored how much is stake in the three-day vote by VW’s 1,550 hourly workers. The vote is due to end at 8:30 p.m. ET and the results could be announced soon after that.
Obama said everyone was in favor of the UAW representing Volkswagen except for local politicians who “are more concerned about German shareholders than American workers,” according to a Democratic aide who attended the meeting with Democratic lawmakers in the House of Representatives.
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I suspect that the numbers are available for the racial composition of the VW work force...I’d guess at about 30%..we’ll never know, thank God for the sanctity of the ballot, but I’d wager that 95% of black VW workers voted for it..
I thought the same thing. I never considered buying a VW anyway, but I just might put them on my short list next time.
Those German workers in Chattanooga have been heavily compensated for being here
Most of the top jobs are held by Germans..
It cost Tennessee a bundle to get them to come here..
Thanks for nothing Bob Corker...
Almost HALF voted FOR the union??? OMG!!
“There are 626 employees who aren’t bright enough to know where their best interests are.”
Well... They would have gotten an exemption from Obamacare.
As a Chattanoogan, I’m pleasantly surprised by this outcome. I didn’t really want to live in the next Detroit.
This vote is devastating to the UAW....and signals the comng end of the UAW ever destroying American jobs again!!! The majority of American employees who work for a “foreign” auto manufacturer in the states will reject the UAW....over & over again!!! Now...if the UAW and other industrial unions would shun politics, join in cooperative partnerships with manufacturers that benefit both the company and the union....things might change.
But....the UAW and the labor movement married to the socialist/communist, Democrat Party has been a kiss of death for the industrial unions and....the same fate will befall the public service unions across the country as time goes by and “Obama & his “traitor” Democrat Party continue to kill the goose that laid the “American Economy” golden egg!!! I salute the workers of VW. They have made the right move to protect their jobs, their company and their country!!!
Enormous relief, but very close vote.
Thank You! That picture never gets old
They barely lost - 712 to 626
That is 626 dumb people who fail to realize that the union will tax them and call it union dues. They will have less money and will not be able to move around to other jobs in this or other plants as union rules will force them to stay put while A) either some other less qualified but senior person leaves the job or passes on it or B) you must take a training course mandated by the union or C) pay off the union steward.
Doesn't matter. That's part of the stacked deck. The company I work for had to repeat a failed union vote in part because they did the most heinous thing possible: they paved and lighted the employee parking lot, which was perceived by the union as an attempt to bribe the workers to vote against (and of course the NLRB agreed). The Board will slam the company for anything perceived (by themselves and the union) as influencing the vote - the president's stated opinion will not be considered as such, because he's influencing in the right direction as far as they are concerned.
I see, so the state of Tenn. subsidized them?
Bob Corker made us pay for them like they was a high priced whore...
Bad move.
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