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Current Events => Breaking News => Topic started by: Splashdown on February 15, 2014, 07:47:34 AM
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Volkswagen workers reject UAW in huge blow to union
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Link (http://www.cnbc.com/id/101419701)
After three days of voting by hourly wage workers at the Volkswagen final assembly plants in Chattanooga, Tennessee, employees at the plant elected on Friday not to join the union.
The final tally was 726 workers voting no while 612 voted yes, with 89 percent of the eligible workers casting ballots.
"While we certainly would have liked a victory for workers here, we deeply respect the Volkswagen Global Group Works Council, Volkswagen management and IG Metall for doing their best to create a free and open atmosphere for workers to exercise their basic human right to form a union," said UAW President Bob King in a statement released after the vote.
The rejection is a major blow to the UAW which has never organized a foreign-brand auto plant operating in the U.S.
A yes vote would have also given the UAW representation of a final assembly plant in the southern U.S. where foreign automakers have set up facilities in right to work states.
:yahoo:
Looks like Chattanooga won't turn into Detroit...
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Volkswagen workers reject UAW in huge blow to union
(http://s1.cdn.autoevolution.com/images/news/more-magna-parts-for-vw-chattanooga-19752_1.jpg)
Link (http://www.cnbc.com/id/101419701)
:yahoo:
Looks like Chattanooga won't turn into Detroit...
Finally some good news. Workers in the south are too smart for the union BS. I hope this stops the unions. All they have to do is look at Detroit to see what the unions and big government can do to a region.
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The Magic Negro needs to keep his snout out of private business. The stupid SOB can not run the government efficiently and could f...k up a soup sandwich.
Hopefully the new vehicle that VW will build in the future will be made in TN rather than in Mexico.
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:nelson:
But I wish the vote were more overwhelming.
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I love how the UAW complained that outsiders came in to "scare" the workers into voting against the union....
To quote Animal House:
"He can't do that to our pledges! Only WE can do that to our pledges!"
:rotf:
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:clap:
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Considering how much money and thuggery the UAW threw around down there, any loss by them is a huge loss.
People are waking up to what they're all about. Only took them about 75 years.
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:nelson:
But I wish the vote were more overwhelming.
Me, too. That was a little too close for me.
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Me, too. That was a little too close for me.
Nah. Consider the following:
--UAW thuggery.
--The MILLIONS the UAW pumped into this vote.
--VW WANTED the union in.
And yet despite all this, the vote STILL failed. 20-30 years ago, this vote would have won going away. The fact that it doesn't tells us something, namely that workers are waking up to the fact unions are not necessary, and that unions are becoming an albatross around their job security, the economy, and their futures.
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Nah. Consider the following:
--UAW thuggery.
--The MILLIONS the UAW pumped into this vote.
--VW WANTED the union in.
And yet despite all this, the vote STILL failed. 20-30 years ago, this vote would have won going away. The fact that it doesn't tells us something, namely that workers are waking up to the fact unions are not necessary, and that unions are becoming an albatross around their job security, the economy, and their futures.
The best part, it was a bust for Obama:
President Barack Obama on Friday waded into a high-stakes union vote at Volkswagen AG’s plant in Tennessee, accusing Republican politicians who oppose unionization of being more concerned about German shareholders than U.S. workers…
Obama said everyone was in favor of the UAW representing Volkswagen except for local politicians who “are more concerned about German shareholders than American workers,†according to a Democratic aide who attended the meeting with Democratic lawmakers in the House of Representatives.
Hot Air (http://hotair.com/archives/2014/02/15/tennessee-vw-workers-reject-unionization-bid-by-uaw/)
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Obama said everyone was in favor of the UAW
When do you think he'll learn that everything he says comes back to blow up in his face and makes him look like a fool?
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Obama said everyone was in favor of the UAW
Then who was doing the balloting, DIEBOLD? :-)
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Then who was doing the balloting, DIEBOLD? :-)
Of all of the VRWC operators I should speak to about the word below . . . :thatsright:
Does the word
OPSEC
mean anything?
:tongue: