Posted on 02/18/2014 3:51:25 PM PST by jazusamo
Mark down Feb. 14, 2014, as the Saint Valentine's Day union massacre. Years from now we may look back at this date as the turning point of the modern-day union dominance over manufacturing industries in America.
That's the broader national significance of the 712-to-626 vote in Chattanooga, Tenn., to reject a United Auto Workers attempt to unionize a Volkswagen auto assembly plant. Despite a full-court blitz by the AFL-CIO and even the Volkswagen management to allow the union in, the workers turned thumbs-down to the power play.
Why? Three weeks ago I traveled to Chattanooga on behalf of the Beacon Institute to educate workers and community leaders on the perils of unionizing the 3,000-worker plant. My message and those of others, including UAW members from Michigan: Beware turning Chattanooga, a surprisingly fast-growing metro area in the South, into Detroit.
Workers got the message. A union would put their jobs at risk.
When I traveled to Chattanooga and met with families who would be affected by the union presence, l heard multiple concerns. One was that unions would withhold money from worker paychecks with few corresponding benefits.
Workers are paid well at the VW plant — $18 to $30 an hour (plus benefits) depending on skills — and there is high demand for these jobs. One worker at the plant told me that collectivist union work rules might prevent merit-based advancement.
They also understood that the higher plant costs associated with a union presence could mean that over time more assembly jobs are outsourced to Mexico or China.
This vote in Chattanooga was one of Big Labor's most severe setbacks in years. The stakes were much larger than what would happen to a few thousand workers within this one factory's walls.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.investors.com ...
Great questions and the UAW doesn’t want them asked.
UAW is likely talking to some judges...
“So, if they’d hired more blacks, the union would have passed and that’s why it’s racism.”
If the blacks could manage to stay out of prison, maybe they would have more say...
It won't be from THIS BUNCH
An interesting read if you filter out the turgid Socialist prose.
This nails it.
Even if they were receptive in a general way to being in a union, this would be a deal killer.
As industrial unions lose power the government unions become more powerful.
how foolish that some workers actually voted to unionize... they have got to be downright stupid...
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