Posted on 09/12/2013 2:53:51 AM PDT by markomalley
Volkswagen's factory at Chattanooga, Tennessee, is close to becoming the first U.S. car assembly plant run by a foreign company to have its workers officially represented by the United Auto Workers (UAW) union, a German paper reported.
"Yes, we have a majority," UAW boss Bob King was quoted saying by business daily Handelsblatt in a preview of an article to be published on Friday.
More than 50 percent of the employees at the plant, which according to VW figures numbered 2,415, had signed union cards and registered as future union members, the paper said.
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Never was the biggest PB fan but he was OK. Stephanie Z was the better part of the pair and did give the little vw rabbit some character.
I have all the DVDs and an autographed copy of the RS book plus some autographed theater stuff SZ signed that came with it.
0-60 in six seconds is somewhat pedestrian these days.
And Brazil...
VW might just want to close shop if that happens.
Is TN a union state?
Corker is upset that AL Qaeda didn’t get a kickback in the deal
Auf Wiedersehen, Tennessee.
So, what happens in a right to work state to the workers who don’t want to join the union??
Tennessee is, and always has been, a right to work state.
There are some unions but it is basically a right to work state.
bump
That's pretty fast for a pedestrian.
Oh, and that car that was mentioned was introduced in that form in 1999. It's still a chick car, though.
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