Germany’s largest trade union opening US office with UAW

Associated Press ^ | Nov. 18, 2015 6:52 PM EST | Erik Schelzig

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Germany's largest trade union is opening a joint office with the United Auto Workers in Tennessee to promote labor issues at German automakers and suppliers in the southern United States.

Frankfurt-based IG Metall estimates that 100,000 people work for German-owned automotive companies in the U.S. Most of those workers aren't represented by unions, unlike at their counterparts at plants in Germany. ...

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Doing the Job American Unions won't do

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Volkswagen’s American workers in the South have rejected union representation. They don’t want it, and this in spite of the fact that VW pushed them to have the union representation. The people, the American workers don’t want it.

So now they are bringing in the German Union to represent the workers that don’t want the representation!?

INCREDIBLE!

.....and what else is incredible is that mine is only the second post on this abomination since it was posted this late morning.

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IG Metall is just another facet of the Berlin government in reality. Very telling that they won’t take no for an answer.