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..
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.