Workers Reject UAW at Tennessee VW Plant

[Antares]

Non-union workers at at Tennessee Volkswagen plant voted to reject being represented by the United Auto Workers union. The vote was 712-626 against the UAW.

The union had pulled out all the stops in order to score their second victory in a right-to-work state. They even had the blessing of Volkswagen management, who were under tremendous pressure from their labor committee back home to unionize the Chattanooga plant.

This vote was essentially gift-wrapped for the union by Volkswagen,” said Hammond, who previously worked at the Service Employees International Union.

The setback is a major defeat for the UAW’s effort to expand in the growing South, where foreign automakers have 14 assembly plants, eight built in the past decade, said Kristin Dziczek, director of the labor and industry group at the Center for Automotive Research, an industry think tank in Michigan.

The PJ Tatler » Workers Reject UAW at Tennessee VW Plant

There is hope for the American worker yet....they are learning to tell the Union Thugs to "fuck off".

 

[bodecea]

Non-union workers at at Tennessee Volkswagen plant voted to reject being represented by the United Auto Workers union. The vote was 712-626 against the UAW.

The union had pulled out all the stops in order to score their second victory in a right-to-work state. They even had the blessing of Volkswagen management, who were under tremendous pressure from their labor committee back home to unionize the Chattanooga plant.

This vote was essentially gift-wrapped for the union by Volkswagen,” said Hammond, who previously worked at the Service Employees International Union.

The setback is a major defeat for the UAW’s effort to expand in the growing South, where foreign automakers have 14 assembly plants, eight built in the past decade, said Kristin Dziczek, director of the labor and industry group at the Center for Automotive Research, an industry think tank in Michigan.

The PJ Tatler » Workers Reject UAW at Tennessee VW Plant

There is hope for the American worker yet....they are learning to tell the Union Thugs to "fuck off".

This is certainly their right. Let's hope things go well for them.

 

[Rozman]

Ed Schultz from MSNBC is not going to be happy about this.
He is a man of the people looking out for workers rights...

 

[Truthseeker420]

Tenn. lawmakers issue incentive threat in VW union move.

The crusade by anti-union forces in Tennessee, including the state's governor and senior senator, is as much a fight with Volkswagen management as with the UAW.

Not only are Republican legislators accusing Volkswagen of backing the UAW, some of their leaders on Monday threatened to withhold tax incentives for future expansion of the 3-year-old assembly plant in Chattanooga if workers vote this week to join the UAW.

About 1,500 workers will vote from Wednesday through Friday in an election that the National Labor Relations Board will conduct.

....Norquist and a group called Center for Worker Freedom have rented about a dozen digital billboards in the Chattanooga area trumpeting anti-union messages. One shows an image of the long-abandoned Packard ruins with the message: Detroit: Brought to You by the UAW.

The company has allowed anti-union groups into the plant to talk to workers and distribute printed material




Tenn. lawmakers issue incentive threat in VW union move

Again more proof that Republicans only believe in the free market if it benefits the GOP.

 

[Rozman]

Around 1983 I interviewed for a telecom job in NYC for a tecnician position.
I was told if hired I needed to join the Communications Workers of America union.
I wanted the job so I didn't really have a choice.

Anyway I worked in the industry as a union member but mostly as a non union employee.I had a better experience as a non union worker.

 

[Antares]

Tenn. lawmakers issue incentive threat in VW union move.

The crusade by anti-union forces in Tennessee, including the state's governor and senior senator, is as much a fight with Volkswagen management as with the UAW.

Not only are Republican legislators accusing Volkswagen of backing the UAW, some of their leaders on Monday threatened to withhold tax incentives for future expansion of the 3-year-old assembly plant in Chattanooga if workers vote this week to join the UAW.

About 1,500 workers will vote from Wednesday through Friday in an election that the National Labor Relations Board will conduct.

....Norquist and a group called Center for Worker Freedom have rented about a dozen digital billboards in the Chattanooga area trumpeting anti-union messages. One shows an image of the long-abandoned Packard ruins with the message: Detroit: Brought to You by the UAW.

The company has allowed anti-union groups into the plant to talk to workers and distribute printed material




Tenn. lawmakers issue incentive threat in VW union move

Again more proof that Republicans only believe in the free market if it benefits the GOP.

Sorry, no.
The Unions have served their purpose and are no longer useful.

 

[DigitalDrifter]

Ed Schultz from MSNBC is not going to be happy about this.
He is a man of the people looking out for workers rights...

I know, and I love it ! I can see his fat red face exploding right now !

 

[Rozman]

Ed Schultz from MSNBC is not going to be happy about this.
He is a man of the people looking out for workers rights...

I know, and I love it ! I can see his fat red face exploding right now !

Yup.... and of course he will blame the Tea party and the republicans and Bush and on and on....

Big head Ed....

 

[Truthseeker420]

Tenn. lawmakers issue incentive threat in VW union move.

The crusade by anti-union forces in Tennessee, including the state's governor and senior senator, is as much a fight with Volkswagen management as with the UAW.

Not only are Republican legislators accusing Volkswagen of backing the UAW, some of their leaders on Monday threatened to withhold tax incentives for future expansion of the 3-year-old assembly plant in Chattanooga if workers vote this week to join the UAW.

About 1,500 workers will vote from Wednesday through Friday in an election that the National Labor Relations Board will conduct.

....Norquist and a group called Center for Worker Freedom have rented about a dozen digital billboards in the Chattanooga area trumpeting anti-union messages. One shows an image of the long-abandoned Packard ruins with the message: Detroit: Brought to You by the UAW.

The company has allowed anti-union groups into the plant to talk to workers and distribute printed material




Tenn. lawmakers issue incentive threat in VW union move

Again more proof that Republicans only believe in the free market if it benefits the GOP.

Sorry, no.
The Unions have served their purpose and are no longer useful.

If that were true the GOP led government of Tennessee wouldn't have to threaten VW Corp,

 

[DigitalDrifter]

What the UAW fails to realize, is the whole reason the plants are in the south IN THE FIRST PLACE is because they don't have to deal with them !

Plants like these would have been built in places like Mexico if manufacturers had to deal with the UAW.

If they get even a toe hold in the south, these plants will eventually be doomed.

 

[Antares]

Again more proof that Republicans only believe in the free market if it benefits the GOP.

Sorry, no.
The Unions have served their purpose and are no longer useful.

If that were true the GOP led government of Tennessee wouldn't have to threaten VW Corp,

Whether the GOP believes anything or not in no way makes something untrue.

 

[realinvestment]

Would you think the workers were intimidated by this to the point of affecting their vote?

The majority said no to the UAW.

 

[Rozman]

People should respect the result of the vote!

 

[Iceweasel]

If that were true the GOP led government of Tennessee wouldn't have to threaten VW Corp,

Well, since ObamaCo sticks its' nose in everyone else's business the left has no room to talk. The Republicans are well aware of what the next story is, just like with VWs other plant in Pennsylvania. They unionized, went on strike and continued to make demands. Until VW closed the doors. The Republicans apparently care more about the workers, jobs and opportunity than their lipservice counterparts.

Glad it all worked out and the unions lost a LOT of money. Now we need to get them out of public sector jobs.

 

[Kondor3]

I'm left with the distinct impression that the Glory Days of labor unions are gone forevermore.

This coming from someone who was a Teamster, for a couple of years, eons ago, as a part-time semi tractor-trailer driver on evenings and weekends, driving a semi tractor-trailer when not going to the university, as a kid fresh out of the service, going back to school on the GI Bill, and who hails in part from a Chicago South-Side Irish blue-collar union card-carrying family, with deep, loyal roots to the Labor Movement in our neck of the woods.

Observing unions as a non-member now for many years, I've concluded that very few unions, and very few locals within those unions, do a very good job of protecting their memberships from the worst predations of Big Business and that Big Business has outsourced and off-shored so many jobs, formerly protected by the unions, that many unions are hanging-on by the skin of their teeth and do not earn their pay (dues) any longer, the way they once did in this country.

I blame (largely) Republican Big Business for screwing-over labor by outsourcing and off-shoring so many of those jobs that formerly fed an entire family - a day's honest labor for a day's honest wages.

I blame (largely) Democratic politicians for screwing-over labor by advocating for Illegal Aliens to be rewarded with a path to citizenship after 12,000,000 of them have descended upon us like a plague of locusts and depressed wages in several trades.

I blame (largely) Republican Big Business for preying upon that Illegal Alien labor pool and undercutting the wages of honest hard-working Americans and thereby further eroding their position and prospects.

I blame (largely) bipartisan voters for putting up with these Illegal Aliens for so long and eventually growing tired of resisting and letting the bigwigs on both sides shoe-horn in another 12,000,000 Illegal Aliens into the country as another (1986) and quadrupled Shamnesty approaches on the horizon.

I blame the unimaginative dullards in these unions for not having the foresight to envision such outcomes and for not having the courage to put a stop to both business subversion of unions and the schemes of politicians and vote-whores in both parties to sneak another 12,000,000 in under the rug.

I blame us - the American People - for the very same thing.

Several major factors have served to emasculate Labor Unions in this country and to render them a mere shadow of their former selves.

Or so it seems to this observer, at first glance.

 

[racewright]

Tenn. lawmakers issue incentive threat in VW union move.

The crusade by anti-union forces in Tennessee, including the state's governor and senior senator, is as much a fight with Volkswagen management as with the UAW.

Not only are Republican legislators accusing Volkswagen of backing the UAW, some of their leaders on Monday threatened to withhold tax incentives for future expansion of the 3-year-old assembly plant in Chattanooga if workers vote this week to join the UAW.

About 1,500 workers will vote from Wednesday through Friday in an election that the National Labor Relations Board will conduct.

....Norquist and a group called Center for Worker Freedom have rented about a dozen digital billboards in the Chattanooga area trumpeting anti-union messages. One shows an image of the long-abandoned Packard ruins with the message: Detroit: Brought to You by the UAW.

The company has allowed anti-union groups into the plant to talk to workers and distribute printed material




Tenn. lawmakers issue incentive threat in VW union move

Again more proof that Republicans only believe in the free market if it benefits the GOP.

Sorry, no.
The Unions have served their purpose and are no longer useful.

That's correct--they use members funds to get elected a democrat while many members would prefer a republican or libertarian. This is unjust or maybe illegal..
How do they give 300,000,000 to political campaigns, is it not the members money for benefits to include retirements.

 

[Iceweasel]

That's correct--they use members funds to get elected a democrat while many members would prefer a republican or libertarian. This is unjust or maybe illegal..
How do they give 300,000,000 to political campaigns, is it not the members money for benefits to include retirements.

It is illegal here in Washington State but the teacher's union does it every election, plus they strike (also illegal) right before school starts to put pressure on the parents. It's nice to have the right people in your back pocket.

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

Tenn. lawmakers issue incentive threat in VW union move.

The crusade by anti-union forces in Tennessee, including the state's governor and senior senator, is as much a fight with Volkswagen management as with the UAW.

Not only are Republican legislators accusing Volkswagen of backing the UAW, some of their leaders on Monday threatened to withhold tax incentives for future expansion of the 3-year-old assembly plant in Chattanooga if workers vote this week to join the UAW.

About 1,500 workers will vote from Wednesday through Friday in an election that the National Labor Relations Board will conduct.

....Norquist and a group called Center for Worker Freedom have rented about a dozen digital billboards in the Chattanooga area trumpeting anti-union messages. One shows an image of the long-abandoned Packard ruins with the message: Detroit: Brought to You by the UAW.

The company has allowed anti-union groups into the plant to talk to workers and distribute printed material




Tenn. lawmakers issue incentive threat in VW union move

Again more proof that Republicans only believe in the free market if it benefits the GOP.

You're so full of shit. The unions advocated their position trying to coerce workers into adopting them. The anti-union side did the same trying to get them not to. The workers voted and the anti-union side won this time. That's how it works. Stop being such a whiny bitch.

 

[percysunshine]

If that were true the GOP led government of Tennessee wouldn't have to threaten VW Corp,

The 'binge and purge' button is on the left of your remote control.

 

[Mr Natural]

Evidently, VW management offered the workers a better deal than the union.