Posted on 02/21/2014 1:23:56 PM PST by MacNaughton
The United Auto Workers said on Friday it filed an appeal with the government over "interference by politicians and outside special interest groups" in an election last week in Tennessee where Volkswagen workers rejected the union. The union said in a statement that its appeal to the U.S. National Labor Relations Board details "a coordinated and widely publicized coercive campaign conducted by politicians and outside organizations to deprive Volkswagen workers of their federally protected right to join a union."
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The members of the Tennessee legislature threatened to withdraw tax breaks if the union was let in. If they had only kept their stupid mouths shut then the union would have been voted down and the UAW wouldn’t have anything to appeal on. But that would have been the smart thing to do, and smart apparently is a disqualifying trait for membership in the Tennessee House and Senate.
Well, that didn’t take long.
That should last about 10 minutes.
No kidding
I suspect VWs CAFE standards ail be getting a second look, and OSHA, EPA IRS et.al. will be setting up a field office across the street.
and when we’re done with this asinine election, we’ll try to recall Wis. governor.....great idea
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