“If the workers understand the need to make a product that will return a profit to investment, so be it.”
That will occur the day after pigs fly. your Obama check arrives, and Hell freezes over.
If VW does not make a profit to its investors they will close.
VW is not fighting this.
Unions by and large became a naughty word after WWII.
In the early years they were needed to protect workers and stop child labor. The unions then attacked business and demanded more profit than what was deemed affordable by investors.
If VW sees this as an operational outlay they will regret this move as OSHA and DOL already govern the original demands of any union.