Norma Rae is deeply saddened.
Posted on 05/17/2024 1:10:45 PM PDT by Red Badger
KEY POINTS:
* Mercedes-Benz workers in Alabama have voted against union representation by the United Auto Workers, the National Labor Relations Board said Friday.
* The results are a blow to the UAW’s organizing efforts a month after the Detroit union won an organizing drive of roughly 4,330 Volkswagen plant workers in Tennessee.
* The Mercedes-Benz vote was expected to be more challenging for the union than the Volkswagen plant, where the union had already established a presence after two failed organizing drives in the past decade.
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A NO vote for now. However, UAW will not give up. The left never gives up. They come back time after time, and then again.
Awesome. But as mentioned, they’ll be back.
I give it five years before the workers vote to decertify the UAW.
To put it another way, nothing is ever settled until it is settled the way the left wants it settled, and then it stays settled until the left decides it wants it settled another way, and then it is never settled until it is settled the new way, [endless loop].
OTOH, if one of their cars happens to fall into the sea, it should never be brought up too quickly, or it might suffer from Mercedes Benz.
UAW will go into blackmail mode.
The current Rat DOJ will encourage the commie bullies
The Left is like Cancer, best you can do is to put it into remission.
Have the allegations of Mercedes strong-arming people to defeat the vote been made yet?
Do a quick study on the demographics of the workers in Tennessee and Alabama.
Let no be surprised if, down the road, VW invests in the latest and greatest automation and robots and, in order to save some money and machines replace humans, start laying folks off.
And, of course, Biden wins it won’t be hard to ship building to Mexico
Taking up most of a city block, multi-stored, I couldn't help but think of all the
workers supporting such an extravaganza.
I’m not against unions. They are a protected 1st amendment freedom of association activity. What I oppose is extortion, blackmail, mandatory deductions from workers paychecks to pay for fancy cars and houses for the union delegates and lobbyists.
If you have a good job, good benefits, good pay, good insurance, good retirement plan... what the heck do you need a union for? And if you do have a grievance at some point, you put a few of the top people together to go talk to management and work it out.
As a writer of journal-published papers, an inventor with patents, and an innovator whose lab-devised unique processes that the public has never been seen by the public but which earned multimillions for the manufacturers, I know what it is like to be forced to retire early without any old-age benefits from those selfishly-managed corporations except the Social Security income and Medicare bodily needs. But even those have been continually eroded by the ever-increasing economic inflation, much of that by unionization.
As a non-union professional, I rarely ever saw a forty-hour work week, although from job-related travel, I have stayed in some of the best hotels in the world and consumed their most elegant foods (from which I do have fading memories but nothing else).
I don't know what the pleasurable solution is for we the human race temporaroly residing in this sinful world of warped liberties, except the Second Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ to establish His Kingdom of Righteousness and Peace to set things right.
All the outrageous fortunes received by a few "lucky" individuals does not and cannot purchase a happy existence, be it temporal or eternal, eh?
Great reply! Thanks!
Great reply! Thanks!
OR LESS
Mercedes not built in Deutschland are not Mercedes.
groan...
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