Posted on 02/14/2014 7:44:45 PM PST by Innovative
In a stunning defeat that could accelerate the decades-long decline of the United Auto Workers, employees voted against union representation at Volkswagen AG's Chattanooga, Tennessee, plant, a factory seen as organized labor's best chance to expand in the U.S. South.
An official overseeing the vote, retired judge Sam Payne, said that a majority had voted against UAW representation by 712 to 626.
While voting was under way on Wednesday, Republican U.S. Senator Bob Corker said VW would announce new investment in the plant if the UAW lost the secret ballot.
(Excerpt) Read more at finance.yahoo.com ...
This is what we in Hollywood were talking about. Move Warner to SC, and the Teamsters hold on Hollywood will vanish.
I look for Holder to find that those voting against the union were wearing the wrong colored socks and to require a new vote within a month......
Here in Everett WA the union memebers recently voted by a 1% margin to have Boeing stay in Everett. Union is losing big battles despite Obama’s stacking of the NLRB
Thank goodness the Orwellian-named Employee Free Choice Act never became law.
Good for them. The UAW needs to go away. The last thing workers need is someone else with their hand in their pocket
There are 626 employees who aren’t bright enough to know where their best interests are.
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Watch, more companies will now make the moves into RTW states.
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“There are 626 employees who aren’t bright enough to know where their best interests are.”
Hope VW doesn’t get 626 pro union subversives.
Unfortunately Corker’s comment will be interpreted by the NLRB as a violation and they will authorize a revote. Under this administration, not only is the deck stacked in favor of the union but the cards are marked and the dealer is in cahoots with them.
Too close for comfort, though!
Those 626 people have 62,600 equally as qualified people waiting in the wings who want decent jobs.
Not much local support for “subversive” acts against any decent employer who complies with labor laws.
Particularly when said “Unions” are all in for importing even more illegal aliens to keep their own corrupt protection rackets operating.
In 2016, we need to elect a President who swears to sign on day one, an Executive Order to abolish employee “Unions” for Federal government employees.
Excellent.
BMW spent a billion dollars expanding the plant in South Carolina.
Video at end of thread: http://www.businessinsider.com/bmws-massive-non-union-plant-is-basically-a-huge-screw-you-to-unions-2011-2
Good for those workers.
Keep the money you work for instead of forking it over to a union......
I belonged one time for a couple of months. I could not wait to get out of that. What a nightmare.
VW was neutral. This is their only non-union plant.
No it wasn’t don’t forget where where and how VW started from. The German unions have always had a heavy hand in its corporate structure. Thank you Willy Brandt and the German socialist party. Brandt btw spent the war years working in Detroit when he returned he became mayor of west Berlin and eventually Chacellor. VW wanted the union it may still come to pass.
Very good news.
And they say southerners aren’t smart
Don’t expect German workers to be happy. I imagine their po’ed about the plant being built overseas at all.
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