Posted on 04/30/2024 9:55:47 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
The unionization vote at the Volkswagen plant in Tennessee has been certified by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), according to a Tuesday announcement from the manufacturer and the United Auto Workers (UAW).
Workers at the Chattanooga plant voted two weeks ago, with 73 percent, or 2,628 staffers, in favor of unionization, and 27 percent against, representing 985 employees.
“Volkswagen and union workers around the world have a long history of successfully building vehicles together, and we are jointly committed to a strong and successful future at Volkswagen Chattanooga with the UAW,” the automaker and UAW said in a joint statement on Tuesday.
“We share many common goals: providing a positive working environment where employees are well compensated for their hard work building quality vehicles and share in the company’s success.”
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Move it to Mexico.
https://www.volkswagen-newsroom.com/en/volkswagen-de-mexico-4070
VW has been producing there a long time.
Simply shift to Mexico slowly and shut things down here.
That’s what I would do.
Mexico is NAFTA, so you can easily produce there, ship to the US and sell the product.
Unions: the collective theft over the control and essentially ownership of a company someone else envisioned, sacrificed, took risks and poured their money and life into.
I build/create it, and they take it away from me and distribute what they see as rightfully theirs amongst each other, what does that sound like to you?
....I THINK I remember that Volkswagon was promised, backed up by a vote of workers, that workers WOULD NOT unionize.
If I’m right, those hard headed Germans MIGHT just shut er down.
The whole reason why industry has been coming to TN is because it is a right to work state.
So buy a VW and part of the purchase price goes into Democratic Party coffers.
Union meatheads. Y’all can kiss your jobs goodbye after a couple of years of union douchebaggery.
At least it’s not going to the Nazis..oh wait...
Here’s my rationale:
1. Tennessee is a “right to work” state, so the 985 employees who voted against the union cannot be compelled to join it.
2. VW isn’t going to have any interest in administering two different compensation structures. So they are going to end up paying the non-union workers the same as the union workers anyway.
3. The 2,628 UAW workers are going to realize they’re getting shafted because everyone is getting paid the same, but only the UAW members are paying union dues.
THE END
people should get paid for their hard work fairly but unionism in America has grown to be a disaster.
Unionization is the first step toward a bunch of ignorant slobs losing their jobs.
Sounds plausible. How much are the union dues?
That’s my thought too. When they the non-union members get the same treatment, who’d want to pay dues?
I believe the UAW dues are the equivalent of two hours of wages per month.
One of the first Starbucks stores to unionize — just a couple of years ago — is already dealing with an attempt to decertify the union. The tipping point was when the company gave across-the-board wage hikes to everyone EXCEPT the union employees — since their wages were negotiated through contracts. LOL.
Unions are an adjunct of democrat party.
ATLAS SHRUGGED
This will end badly...
Check out the changing demographics of Chattanooga and one will see why they voted union and pro communist.
If Ferdinand were alive he’d fire them all and replace them with slave labor.
And weren’t those the “good old days”?
4. VW assembles a committee to identify any waste in the manufacturing process and come up with a way to streamline it.
5. Makes an investment in new robotics and automation.
6. Start laying folks off
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