This would have been a MAJOR DEFEAT for hardworking American workers.
The UAW did not lose the “watershed moment”, in fact, the moment was of surprising importance to them, and they got to “enjoy” every bit of it.
The old call for voting in a union, in whatever enterprise, is losing its allure and luster. Unions have, quite successfully at times, managed to close down many industries in those localities where no countervailing force has or ever could resist their demands and sometimes absurd grievances.
It has been YEARS since any union could deliver more to the potential members of the workforce than the individual could carve out for himself, and only the incompetent think that they could earn some kind of workplace “justice” by withholding commitment to quality products or by work stoppages altogether.
Labor is a fungible commodity, and no man is indispensable in any production procedure. Add to that the capability to automate most repetitive jobs, and the really sharp competition between employers for the adaptable and capable potential employee, and there is a bidding war for really good managers and floor people.
Nobody’s job is ever really safe, in that effort may be relaxed upon attaining the position. The question shall always be, “What have you done for me lately?”
I wonder how much the UAW spent and how many union official man hours were spent PER VOTE for each of the 626 votes they received.
I’m sure they spent a fortune in this losing endeavor and the only thing they got to take home was pockets filled with defeat. Props to the Tennessee auto workers—they’re a lot smarter than those in Detroit.
Why do the unions use the term ‘worker’ instead of employee? If more of these schmoozed knew the intent of the union the vote would not have been so close.
The winner here is Chattanooga unless they prefer to end up like Detroit.
GREAT NEWS!
THRILLED the UAW LOST!
Let freedom ring!
IDEAL HEADLINE: “TENN WORKERS SUCCESSFULLY AVERT BAILOUT-RIDDEN, INSOLVENT, CORRUPT, INCENTIVE DESTROYING, COERCIVE INSTITUTIONAL SCHEME.”
With a closet muslim in the USA White House and muslims turning Europe into an Islamic stronghold there is almost no place on earth, other than Israel, where a Jew can find sanctuary.
Ubama didn’t pack the NLRB with Alinskyites and break a promise to the GOPe by appointing Richard Griffin, Jr. General Counsel to let a little thing like an honest certification election stand in the way of all those union dues funneling into the DemoncRAT party.
If you look around the Internet for example in the Washington Post, you’ll see articles that were prewritten before the vote that assumed the vote would go for the union