Posted on 02/15/2014 8:21:23 AM PST by Red in Blue PA
CHATTANOOGA, Tennessee (Reuters) - In a stinging defeat that could accelerate the decades-long decline of the United Auto Workers, Volkswagen AG workers voted against union representation at a Chattanooga, Tennessee plant, which had been seen as organized labor's best chance to expand in the U.S. South.
The loss, 712 to 626, capped a sprint finish to a long race and was particularly surprising for UAW supporters, because Volkswagen had allowed the union access to the factory and officially stayed neutral on the vote, while other manufacturers have been hostile to organized labor.
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Union Suffers Big Loss at Tennessee VW Plant
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The union will just send in some more knee breakers and head crackers then push for another election.
Good!!
Unions served a much needed purpose at one time.
But power corrupts and they just wouldn’t let it go until they became the very thing they despised and claim to be fighting against.
Funny how people become the very thing they hate or detest.
As mentioned on the other thread, this will provide new motivation to make card check happen.
Then there is the job-killing NRLB. That holdover from the 30's is another dinosaur that needs to be abolished since it has outlived its usefulness as well.
Down south, folks believe in the 2nd Amendment. If some Northern Guido Union thugs try to break legs down here, they’ll wind up “disappeared” into some holler alongside 1930’s Revenue Agents.
NRLB will come in and claim it was illegal and a do-over is required.
My father-in-law was required to join a union to keep his job at a chemical plant in Baton Rouge (this was before Louisiana became a "right-to-work" state). At one time the Teamsters tried to replace the existing union, and he fought tooth and nail to prevent the change, because he had seen first hand how corrupt unions really are and the Teamsters were far worse than his current union.
Didn’t unions drive the South’s textile industry out of the country?
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Yeah, or ask all the steelworkers in Pittsburgh how great the unions are...oh, wait...that's right. There are no more steel jobs in Pittsburgh.
I have a phone and a pen and............!
Obama said that the only people against the UAW drive at the VW plant were business interests, who were more concerned about shareholders than the workers.
But here we see that the workers, in a free and fair election, decided against joining the UAW.
SO, by Obama’s logic, are the workers more concerned with shareholder profits than their own well being? What am I missing here?
I have a phone and a pen and............!
...and you know what for brains!
Same old class warfare argument. Hey! Bozo! This vote means more jobs here in the US, not in Mexico. How about dropping the political posturing and look at the facts. You and Karl Marx are not welcomed in TN.
The Vote was too close IMHO. They will be back and they will keep pounding until they win by one Vote, count in it.
I guess this means that the Union won’t be able to buy another Private Jet to fly around the next Corrupt Democrat Secretary of (Union) Labor.
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