Posted on 02/15/2014 10:46:45 AM PST by mandaladon
Workers at a Volkswagen factory in Tennessee have voted against union representation in a devastating defeat for the United Auto Workers union's effort to make inroads in the South. The 712-626 vote released late Friday was surprising for many labor experts and union supporters who expected a UAW win because Volkswagen tacitly endorsed the union and even allowed organizers into the Chattanooga factory to make sales pitches. "This is like an alternate universe where everything is turned upside down," Cliff Hammond, a labor lawyer at in Detroit, told The Wall Street Journal, noting that companies usually fight union drives. "This vote was essentially gift-wrapped for the union by Volkswagen," said Hammond, who previously worked at the Service Employees International Union. The setback is a major defeat for the UAW's effort to expand in the growing South, where foreign automakers have 14 assembly plants, eight built in the past decade, said Kristin Dziczek, director of the labor and industry group at the Center for Automotive Research, an industry think tank in Michigan. "If this was going to work anywhere, this is where it was going to work," she said of Chattanooga.
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“German shareholders”? Really? The Clown said that?! What, am I not allowed to own a piece of VW? Does VW create jobs in the USA that benefit AMERICAN CITIZENS?
I swear to God, Obama speaks economic moronics.
How long before the regime simply orders the plant unionized?
Why can’t a US auto company locate in a Southern right-to-work state so it doesn’t have to deal with the UAW?
Looks like they did.
I was talking about an American company, a GM, Ford, Chrysler, or any new American car company that someone might choose to create. Here, we’re talking about Volkswagen, with the union targeting Mercedes, BMW, and other foreign car makers with American plants.
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