On Friday the United Auto Workers Union was dealt a severe blow in their attempts to organize labor at Southern auto factories. Workers at a Tennessee Volkswagen factory surprised labor experts with a 712-626 vote against organizing with the UAW, despite cooperation from Volkswagen, which endorsed the vote, allowing the union to pitch to workers right in the Chattanooga factory.
The UAW for decades has tried without success to organize a foreign-owned plant in a region that’s wary of organized labor. The loss now makes it even harder for the union to recruit members at another Southern factory.“If they can’t win this one, what can they win?” asked Art Schwartz, a former General Motors labor negotiator who now is a consultant in Ann Arbor, Mich.
UAW President Bob King, in a 2011 speech to workers, said the union has no long-term future if it can’t organize the Southern plants.
King acknowledged Volkswagen’s cooperation in letting the UAW have access to the employees.
Source: TheBlaze
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Let them win and have another Detroit Michigan. Then the rest of America can be American. Let the Civil War Begin and get it over with. It’s time.
Good for them! We need Americans to stand up for themselves!!
There was a time in our history when unions were necessary to increase worker safety and get workers fair wages. My own dad was a 30+ year union, railroad man, so I grew up in a blue-collar family. That time is now past, and so is the time for anachronistic unions.
With OSHA safety standards, the availability of outside mediators and in-house human resources departments, unions are no longer necessary. Workers have plenty of avenues to use instead of unions, which squeeze them for dues to buy local and national elections.
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Great news !!!!
Don’t need Unions in the South!!