VW is in for a RUDE awakening when they find out German union workers aren't like American union slugs
Posted on 02/13/2014 4:12:16 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
U.S. Senator Bob Corker of Tennessee said on Wednesday he has been "assured" that if workers at the Volkswagen AG plant in his hometown of Chattanooga reject United Auto Worker representation, the company will reward the plant with a new product to build.
Corker's bombshell, which runs counter to public statements by Volkswagen, was dropped on the first of a three-day secret ballot election of blue-collar workers at the Chattanooga plant whether to allow the UAW to represent them.
Corker has long been an opponent of the union which he says hurts economic and job growth in Tennessee, a charge that UAW officials say is untrue....
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the only good UAW is a dead UAW
Scum...... all of them
I’ve heard it said that if the Nissan plant near Jackson, Mississippi, were to go union it would not be long before the Nissan company would be gone there. The same can be said for the Toyota plant in Blue Springs.
There is a simple answer, the thugs, say democrats, need a stinking union.
The AFSCME is the most insideous of all the unions. We seem to have no control over them, and certainly do not as long as we have a left wing administration.
I had to make a second post.....
This is Chicago hard ball.
Corker stuck his finger in Richard Trumka’s eye . He s@#$ the UAW
That is what I thought too!
In Germany, the union by law has seats on the board of directors.
VW is in for a RUDE awakening when they find out German union workers aren't like American union slugs
That’s what I was thinking, bad enough to throw that around in light company, but to make a public statement of it???
I agree. But I think the UAW put pressure on the German autoworkers union to push the company’s board to at least not oppose unionization in the VW American’s plants.
I don’t think that the senior management of VW have any idea what they are getting into.
I had two cars built in the transparent factory. They make VW Phaeton’s. the best car Thad never could be sold in the US. The imported them from 2004 to 2006. Only sold about 6000 of the here. Very similar to the Audi A8L and shared some parts with the Bentley .
a charge that UAW officials say isn’t true..........they then stated that Detroit was an affluent super-city on the rise....
The unions, the Mafia could learn from them. When I was in school, I worked for a large department store chain (now defunct). I had to join the union and with my dues, they told me who to vote for. I asked the head of the local if he could sell his house, since he was a commie. His house was a cedar and glass contemporary on 15 acres of waterfront. The union drove the company out of business.
The best tractors in the world used to be made at a plant in Louisville, Kentucky and several other plants in the Midwest, that was International Harvester. In the 70’s when union workers were getting over $20 an hour to sweep the floor, the union decided they wanted more. The company said it would put them out of business. The union advised its members to vote to strike. Well International Harvester is gone. We all know how well it worked for the Hostess Twinkie union thugs who put them out of business. The Louisville Orchestra used to have programs that the city flocked to but the union wanted dramatic increases, now nobody can afford tickets and the union has effectively busted the Louisville Orchestra. In New York City even the Opera is being put out of business by striking union officials. The greatest tire company in the world, the Cooper tire company has been put out of business by the striking union. The professional football and baseball unions, you know the people who make millions both went on strike ruining the season for both. Hockey players did the same thing in 2004 and lost an entire season.
I could go on and on. It is the same thing over and over again. The union comes in and tells everyone they will make more money in the union, and they do until the union puts the company out of business.
I hope VW moves to Mexico if the union gets in and every one of them that voted for the union is out of a job.
The effort is being supported by Volkswagen itself.The socialist party in Germany solicited labor and other type of unions This effort was led by Willy Brandt mayor of Berlin who btw worked in Detroit during the WWII and ulitmately became Chancellor. Don’t forget how and who created the original Volkswagen Getselschaft. Most of those EU unions work with the pols in power and are as corrupt and as bad or worse as our SEIU. If I had VW stock I’d be screanming dumkoffs Die VS is nicht Deutchland.
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probably because “Phaeton” is a stupid name for a car. lol
I read something the other day about this. I don’t think its VW, its a labor union in Europe that has some type of tie to VW over there.
prolly true, but over here, it'll be the typical RAT union scum that they'll have to deal with...
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