Can The UAW EVER Get A Foothold In The South?

“I see no need for union representation,” says Adrian Leslie, line worker at Volkswagen’s Chattanooga plant. “We are being treated fairly here.”

If it would be him alone to decide, then any plans of the UAW to unionize Volkswagen Chattanooga are doomed. Leslie is not alone in his opinion, and the plans are doomed.

Leslie had given up a 7 ½ year job at a distribution company in Chattanooga, because “the job I had before was considered a job, but I was actually looking for was a career.”



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uaw_lax - 10/28/2011 1:23:05 AM

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Ive been hearing this for 20 or so years but looks like this year we are the only companies hiring.

uaw_lax - 10/28/2011 1:24:18 AM

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This has been true for decades, generations and generations of inbreeding has also left the south highly uneducated.\

uaw_lax - 10/29/2011 11:14:44 AM

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Just fighting fire with fire I say.

uaw_lax - 10/29/2011 11:17:17 AM

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The empty mind of a Republican is scary scary thing.