[markomalley]

If the UAW had its way, there would be a legal requirement for auto workers to be members.

Thank God they don't have their way.

[Da Coyote]

The UAW’s prime value is an inverse indicator of car quality. If: no UAW, Then: good car.

[tacticalogic]

By failing to organize factories run by foreign automakers, the union has been a spectator to the only growth in the U.S. auto industry in the last 30 years.

Out here in "flyover country" this is what we call a "clue".

[Pollster1]

Volkswagen AG and Daimler AG, seen as easier nuts to crack than the Japanese and South Koreans

Hint to VW and Daimler workers and management: if you sign with UAW, I will be MUCH less likely to buy your products.

[Leaning Right]

If the UAW had its way, there would be a legal requirement for auto workers to be members

In closed-shop states, they pretty much already have that.

And it's wrong. In a free country, no one should be forced to join a union in order to get or keep a job.

[Erik Latranyi]

This is great news!

It means the UAW is in a hurry while they have a VERY friendly NLRB on their side and do not expect that to continue in 2013!!!!

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

I belonged to two unions in my life and felt that they did nothing but expropriate a chunk of my paycheck in return for making the work environment less pleasant and providing employment for worthless layabouts. I would *never*, *ever* voluntarily join a union.

[count-your-change]

“Workers know that almost every job lost at U.S. car factories in the last 30 years has occurred at a unionized company, while almost every job gained has come at a non-union company”

I wonder if there's some connection there.....Hmmmmm.

[traditional1]

"the union has been a spectator to the only growth in the U.S. auto industry in the last 30 years"

Or, to phrase it more accurately, "the Union has been the CAUSE of the U.S. Auto Industry's lack of growth in the past 30 years".

Which is why PUBLIC SECTOR UNIONS ARE THRIVING, because the raping of Taxpayers to funnel to those UNION MEMBERS (and resultant funneling of the Dues to the DNC) is a perpetual $$$$ goldmine, and it will ONLY end in 2 ways: 1) Revolution, or 2) (most likely outcome), the collapse of the Government.

[pgkdan]

Thank God they don't have their way

...yet!

[OldPossum]

By appealing to German unions for help and by calling on the companies to do the right thing, King hopes to get VW and Daimler to surrender without a fight and let the union make its case directly to workers.

What unbiased reporting. I have reference to the "right thing." That should be in quotes if King is saying it. Otherwise, Reuters is showing their usual bias.

[upchuck]

And most of the factories the UAW is targeting are in the South, which is historically hostile to unions.

Automobile manufacturers, especially foreign ones, are no dummies.

[Fresh Wind]

FTUAW.

[taildragger]

I am not concerned about the UAW...

I am concerned with the shell game that is GM and will they go broke again.

They are "Stuffing the Pipe" and no one will talk about it in the lame stream, business, or auto meeting.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/gm-channel-stuffing-surges-all-time-record

"In the past two months, everyone has been scratching their heads just how it is possible that the US manufacturing base continues to chug along at pre-recession levels even as the world all around America burns? Today, GM may have given the answer, courtesy of its monthly disclosure of car sales which at the top line is completely irrelevant as the funding for these purchases comes almost entirely from subprime loans handed out by the government to NINJAs. What is interesting is the little blurb in every monthly report discussing the amount of dealer inventory, a topic well-known to frequent readers of Zero Hedge which has discussed GM's pervasive channel stuffing in the past, and which subsequently went quite mainstream. So how does November channel stuffing stack up? As the chart below shows, at 623,666 cars, it is an all time absolute record, and represents about 3.5 times the total GM vehicles sold in November! It is also a 31k increase in the past month, and 85k cars more in inventory than in July. Because when economic growth at all costs is needed to demonstrate just how viable America is, and a semi-nationalized car marker is one of the only conduits to "generate" economic growth, it does not matter if the end product is actually demanded or will simply corrode and rust in some dealer showroom in perpetuity. After all it is the act of building the car that matters for various monthly PMI, CMI, regional Fed and GDP purposes. Pretty much exactly like in China's goal seeked "economy." So the next time someone asks just how is it that the miraculous US decoupling continues, please point them to this chart."

[chris_bdba]

I know people who work at the Honda plant in Marysville and the majority don’t want a union.The last time they tried this cr@p some of the larger make workers helped escort the organizers off the plant grounds.Sort of an out union the union goons.....LOL

[chris_bdba]

I know people who work at the Honda plant in Marysville and the majority don’t want a union.The last time they tried this cr@p some of the larger male workers helped escort the organizers off the plant grounds.Sort of an out union the union goons.....LOL