"Volkswagen and UAW to create union at Tennessee plant"

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Volkswagen and UAW to create union at Tennessee plant

by Peter Moskowitz at Algazeera

http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/7/10/chattanooga-volkswagenunion.html

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The South may get its first union at a foreign-owned automaker after all. Bucking an anti-union vote by workers at a Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in February, the United Auto Workers and Volkswagen will announce Thursday the creation of a union local.

Participation in the local would be voluntary and not formally recognized by VW until a majority of the 3,200 employees at the plant agree to join, according to The Tennessean. It’s unclear that that number of employees would agree to join immediately, but pro-union workers lost narrowly in February’s vote, and Volkswagen has actively encouraged the creation of a union, threatening to pull back on expansion plans if workers cannot agree to form one.

"We will be announcing a local, and we would fully expect that Volkswagen would deal with this local union if it represents a substantial portion of its employees," UAW Secretary-Treasurer Gary Casteel of Ashland City told The Tennessean.

Workers had rejected a plan to form a union in a 712–626 vote, despite Volkswagen being keen on the idea. The vote had become symbolic of undue foreign and liberal influence in the conservative state, and state politicians like Sen. Bob Corker and Gov. Bill Haslam, both Republicans, actively opposed VW’s and the UAW’s efforts to unionize. Leading up to the vote, signs around Chattanooga conflated a vote for unionization with support for President Barack Obama.



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[A HERETIC I AM]

1. Not too long before the VW vote there was one in Vance AL, at the Mercedes Plant.

Similar bullshit with the anti-union rhetoric, including billboards along I 20/59. I was hauling cars on occasion out of that plant at the time.

Interesting that the vote result was almost identical to that of VW. About 48% for and 52% against.

I'd like to see Daimler Benz step up and do what their German competitor is doing.

[JDPriestly]

2. K&R.

[TexasTowelie]

3. K&R

If there isn't a requirement to deduct for union dues, I don't see why a group of employees and an employer cannot agree to form a union.

[Populist_Prole]

4. "Undue foreign and liberal influence" that would stengthen the proles

Most unsettling to the redneck peckerwood regime in red states now. Hence the spin by their pols to link any change in the low-tax low-wage structure of the plutocrat's gravy train as some anti "murkin", anti apple pie, anti-gun scheme to keep sunlight from disinfecting their filth.

Fucking bastards.