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Posted on 06/02/2015 1:02:08 PM PDT by jazusamo
Volvo's choice of right-to-work state South Carolina for its $500 million assembly plant puts the Swedish car maker on a collision course with the United Auto Workers, but Gov. Nikki Haley predicts the union will be the latest labor organization to find itself unwelcome in the Palmetto State.
The company announced last week plans for its first facility in North America, a plant that will employ up to 2,000 workers and turn out 100,000 cars per year. Haley, an outspoken critic of unions, has made it clear the union is unwelcome, but United Auto Workers President Dennis Williams said his powerful organization will take its message straight to the workers at the plant, slated to open near Charleston in 2018.
“We believe that everybody should have the right to belong to a union regardless of the governor,” Williams said in a statement to FoxNews.com. “Regardless of several statements made by the governor, we will be in South Carolina. We have local unions there now.”
Williams' comments followed his recent remarks to a Swedish publication in which he criticized Volvo's choice of South Carolina.
“When you look at Volvo in the history of car manufacturing, they are very conscious of human rights and civil liberties,” Williams told Dagens Arbete -- or “The Day’s Work” -- magazine. “South Carolina is one of those states in the United States that has a long history of violating people’s rights. So I am surprised.”
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Ping!
I predict the workers will elect not to affiliate with the union.
Oh, the poor tards! Volvo a non-union shop! The indignity of it all.
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Nikki Haley Ping
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The Red Chinese owns Volvo now, so I don’t see too much interest in a Union.
“South Carolina is one of those states in the United States that has a long history of violating people’s rights.”
Oh, yes, let’s hear a list of those states where people enjoy greater freedom than in South Carolina. The only place where no one has his rights violated is a place where there are zero people. Last I heard there were very few violations of rights on the Antarctic continent.
That sounds exactly like what a union goon would say, doesn’t it.
Isn’t she adorable? Goes a long way to redeem our big mistake with Lindsey, who’ll never be the woman she is!
Amen! ;-)
:’} !!! So proud of my guv.
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