This is bigger than it seems. I believe this was the opening salvo in the “workers of the world unite” bid to form a giant, worldwide behemoth. This is a major setback for the unions.
That was exactly what I thought too. This whole “council” thing. It’s already here. DTE Energy (Detroit Edison) has phased it in.
Yes it is, it is huge.
It was discussed on Bill Bennett this week and I also had a chance to hear Terry Bowman of "UnionConservatives" this week in a public forum.
For more on Terry go here: http://www.unionconservatives.com/
Some of what I have heard....
* The NLRB waved the Union and VW discussing a game plan before a vote a 1st and a shocker to many conservatives.
* The UAW has been at this 3 years and put a ton of money into it ( I haven't 2nd sourced the time on this)
* VW wanted the Union to fill the same roll they do in Germany i.e Workers Circles or some such title i.e for "training" for the trades ( Why not a community college ?)
* That last item was huge in the sense that if the UAW / VW model would have won, it would have been a template for the Obamatons going forward elsewhere with the German-European mindset that Unions are a norm and it being under the guise of apprenticeships-training partnerships with the Corp world, they lost that...
* The Union pulled a trick so dirty they had to go to the vote asking workers to sign a card for more info when in actuality it was a request for a vote. Even the NLRB couldn't stand for this one.
Terry Bowman ( noted above ) discussed he had been in Tenn trying to talk to people and quite frankly were afraid to meet with him although he was able to meet with a good number ( i think he said 100 ) and was often "protested" when he was their.
It might be safe to say the UAW got their butts handed to them, it was what a 20 something % victory marginally? That would be a landslide in a political election...