Tennessee VW workers vote on unionization-Righties FREAK OUT!

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Unbelievable.

Angry Tennessee Righties want to punish a company for letting their workers vote on unionization.

Several Tennessee Republican legislators 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.

Righties trying to stifle the will of the people...who'd a thunk it?

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money...see-volkswagen-uaw-incentives-threat/5388341/

 

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The bizarre thing is that this would be the only non-unionized VW plant that VW has and that it was VW that requested unionization so that the workers could have a spot on their company council. Considering that Tennessee is a right to work State it would have little meaning on the floor and in addition the same politicians bent over backwards to keep the Former Saturn, now GM plant open in Tennessee and didn't have a single problem with it being a UAW unionized plant.

Yea....they really care about workers in Tennessee! LOL

 

[NOVA]

The bizarre thing is that this would be the only non-unionized VW plant that VW has and that it was VW that requested unionization so that the workers could have a spot on their company council. Considering that Tennessee is a right to work State it would have little meaning on the floor and in addition the same politicians bent over backwards to keep the Former Saturn, now GM plant open in Tennessee and didn't have a single problem with it being a UAW unionized plant.

Yea....they really care about workers in Tennessee! LOL

Even more bizarre....."Our works councils are key to our success and productivity. " says Frank Fischer, chairman and CEO of VW

BUT

"U.S. labor law does not allow them to have a works council without a labor union."

and yet this Dem. says

"In my 20 years on the hill, I've never seen such a massive intrusion into the affairs of a private company,"


Maybe he should have noticed 'massive intrusion into the affairs of a private company' when that stupid US labor law was passed that
prohibited the works councils....probably supported by Unions and Democrats in the first place.

 

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It gets BETTER!

Now one of Tennessee's SENATORS is getting involved and making veiled threats.

It's just despicable how they listen to their rich friends, yet ignore the rank and file workers who make up his constituency.


Corker threatens jobs if Volkswagen workers unionize


Workers at Volkwagen's Chattanooga, Tennessee, plant are in the middle of voting on whether to join a union—and their senator is making some very serious threats about the outcome of the vote:

"I've had conversations today and based on those am assured that should the workers vote against the UAW, Volkswagen will announce in the coming weeks that it will manufacture its new mid-size SUV here in Chattanooga," said [Sen. Bob] Corker, without saying with whom he had the conversations.

In the past few weeks, Volkswagen officials have made several statements that the vote will have no bearing on whether the SUV will be made at the Chattanooga plant or at a plant in Puebla, Mexico.

If Volkswagen told workers that it would move production away from Chattanooga on the basis of a union vote, that would be a violation of labor law; telling a public official that and sending him out to levy the threat wouldn't be a lot better. It's also in direct contrast to something an actual VW official said last fall:

Bernd Osterloh, head of VW's global works council, said in a statement that forming a council was important if the plant wanted to produce other VW cars and that he would keep talking with the UAW.

Works councils bring managers and workers together to make decisions about some factory policies; workers would have to unionize to have one in the United States. Under pressure from its strong German union and because it knows works councils do work, Volkswagen is officially neutral in this union election. Corker's public, and legally questionable, threats are an astonishing move by a public official. It's not Corker's first such public temper tantrum over the possibility of a union in Chattanooga; he's called Volkswagen "very naive" for its openness to a union in the past. Now he's apparently graduated to making the threats he wishes VW would—at whatever cost to his state's economy.


http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/...f-Volkswagen-workers-unionize?detail=facebook