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UAW suddenly retreats from fight at Tennessee VW plant
Reuters ^
| Apr 21, 2014
| Amanda Becker and Bernie Woodall
Posted on 04/21/2014 2:52:06 PM PDT by mdittmar
(Reuters) - The United Auto Workers, surprising even its supporters, on Monday abruptly withdrew its legal challenge to a union organizing vote that it lost at a Volkswagen AG plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee in February.
Just an hour before the start of a National Labor Relations Board hearing on the challenge, the union dropped its case, casting a cloud over its long and still unsuccessful push to organize foreign-owned auto plants in the U.S. South.
VW workers due to testify in the NLRB hearing were already at the courthouse in downtown Chattanooga when they heard the news, which left lawyers in the hearing room wondering how to proceed.
UAW President Bob King, whose term expires in June, had vowed four years ago to successfully bring the union into a foreign-owned Southern plant. Three years ago, he said that unless the union was able to do so, its future was in jeopardy.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Tennessee; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: billhaslam; bobcorker; bobking; cardcheck; chattanooga; georgemiller; germany; johntierney; nlrb; tennessee; uaw; unions; volkswagen
Well that's odd?
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posted on
04/21/2014 2:52:06 PM PDT
by
mdittmar
To: mdittmar
I think they heard about the counter-suit by the workers that VW and UAW colluded to put the union in place...
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posted on
04/21/2014 2:54:28 PM PDT
by
Ingtar
(The NSA - "We're the only part of government who actually listens to the people.")
To: mdittmar
They’ve probably been given the OK to move on to terror tactics.
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posted on
04/21/2014 2:54:48 PM PDT
by
ScottinVA
(Obama is so far in over his head, even his ears are beneath the water level.)
To: mdittmar
Maybe they knew they had a loser of a case?
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posted on
04/21/2014 2:59:44 PM PDT
by
boycott
To: mdittmar
The UAW asked the NLRB to invalidate the vote and hold a new one, alleging that workers were improperly influenced by anti-union statements made by Tennessee Republican politicians and outside interest groups in the days leading up to the election. "Improperly influenced"? Sounds like union-speak for: "these poor working guys don't really know whats good for 'em..."
Opposing opinion is always anathema to the left.
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posted on
04/21/2014 3:00:07 PM PDT
by
jonno
(Having an opinion is not the same as having the answer...)
To: ScottinVA
Wink from Holder. Maybe the courts can just “fix” it. For the kids, women and “po” folks, y’know.
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posted on
04/21/2014 3:00:41 PM PDT
by
epluribus_2
(he had the best mom - ever.)
To: mdittmar
Backhoe spotted at the Meadowlands?
To: boycott
VW workers due to testifyMaybe they couldn't find the workers they wanted.
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posted on
04/21/2014 3:04:11 PM PDT
by
mdittmar
To: mdittmar
Maybe they couldn’t find the workers they wanted.
Or the union thugs couldn’t get the judge they wanted?
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posted on
04/21/2014 3:05:54 PM PDT
by
boycott
To: Ingtar
I think they heard about the counter-suit by the workers that VW and UAW colluded to put the union in place... For real?
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posted on
04/21/2014 3:11:43 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
("The best way to control opposition is to lead it ourselves." -- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin)
To: mdittmar
and the RATS, take another one in the.........HA ha!!!
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posted on
04/21/2014 3:45:23 PM PDT
by
Chode
(Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Yup. I know the employees filed a complaint and were looking into legal action. Gut feeling is they decided this was not the place to legislate in a union.
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posted on
04/21/2014 3:48:22 PM PDT
by
Ingtar
(The NSA - "We're the only part of government who actually listens to the people.")
To: mdittmar
Unions filing losing law suits makes them much weaker financially; they want to save their money so they can throw it away, in the coming elections; supporting loser Democrats.
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posted on
04/21/2014 4:47:52 PM PDT
by
PoloSec
( Believe the Gospel: how that Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again)
To: Ingtar
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posted on
04/21/2014 4:57:44 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
("The best way to control opposition is to lead it ourselves." -- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin)
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