Volkswagen's Chattanooga Employees VOTE AGAINST The UAW — Is This A Paradigm Shift Or Simply Politics?

They are smart. They know all the union brings is high fees to stuff the wallets of union bosses and Democrats, drags down the auto industry, resulting in less investment In better products and capabilities, and usually no increase in wages or benefits. I'm not in the auto industry, but in my business, the union workers make less and have worse benefits than the non-union counterparts.

That's very surprising given how precarious VW is at the moment. Unions have served their purpose and no long protect workers or even do anything to improve workers' salary or job conditions.

The first comment on this page, by jeffgall, perfectly sums it up.

Congrats to everybody who voted AGAINST the UAW. My brother worked for Ford Motor Company in Sterling Heights, Michigan for 30 plus years. I NEVER bought a vehicle under his Family plan (and never would). My UAW brother even admitted to me once: "UAW equals an INCREASE in the cost per car since they demand higher wages, usually want more or costly benefits packages and/or higher bonuses from profits. This was the BEST thing VW employees could have done to vote down the union there.

Sounds like common sense to me. Unions for the most part are not that much unlike the mafia with their tactics and mentality where selfishness comes first.

...and the race to the bottom for the American middle class continues unabated. Because we all know the "Trickle Down/ Voodoo " economic theory driving the past 30+ years of concentration of wealth at the very top has reaped great rewards for our middle class workers.

Not.

The Amerifan middle class has suffered more and more during the past 30 years sine Reagan BS'd his economic farce on the American public. And it is a farce as evident by all data available..

It remains to be seen how effective the Republican politician's strategy of directly interfering with a private business matter was in this Tennessee matter ( I suspect some polling firms might investigate). The supposition is that the white American middle class is willing to cut their own throats if it means allegiance to a Republican dogma. They really believe in the anti-union BS despite the fact that Germany is far more union friendly and remains the top manufacturing country on the planet. Japan's powerful unions right now are positioning themselves for bargaining power as we speak and will succeed in guaranteeing Japan worker's economic rights. Both of these countries have higher middle class wealth than the US. But here in America, we learn our economic theory from Koch-funded front groups and Tea Party know-nothings. -just keep white entitlement intact and those nasty immigrants out. And certainly keep those unions from interfering in CEO's and top Exec's getting ALL the money and $$$ profits.

The Trickle Down economic theory works - unfortunately the end result is highly dependent on how much that spigot is opened. In our current economic and political system we know that money buys votes (either Democratic or Republican - it doesn't matter so long as it helps the people donating the money). We also know what we live in a perverse kind of economy where the richer you get the greater access you have to ways of minimizing the taxes you need to pay. We also like to pay sports and entertainment figures considerably more than people who really can make a difference like teachers. Medical malpractice lawyers are allowed to keep a significant portion of the money they win for their clients - who really should be the ones who deserve the payments. (If the client receives a settlement of 1 million dollars, and the contingent fee agreement is for a 45% fee, the client pays the lawyers $450.000 for their fee, and then, from the client’s $550,000 share of the proceeds, reimburses the lawyers for the costs accrued to prepare the case. If costs were $250,000, the the net recovery to the client is only $300,000.) This isn't to say the laywers don't deserve their fair share for the work they had to put in to win the case; just that there is an excessive anount of it going to the lawyer as "contingency fees. The overall effect is to drive the lawyers to persue more cases (in hopes of either winning or settling) so they can reap the benefits while their client only gets a third of what they deserve and overall medical costs goes up for everyone.
I can go on and on but I'm digressing. I don't think this vote against UAW is going to change our economic model though.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/les-leopold/big-lie-america-doesnt-ha_b_3516185.html

we're #27....well below Japan and Germany, and just about every other industrialized country. Every data metric available from every reputable source points to a startling decline in America's middle class compared to the rest of the industrialized world ever since the late 60's/early '70's and the concentrated political attack on unions. Reagan institutionalized and championed the attack on the American middle class with the "Trickle Down" Milton Friedman theory and our economic decline has not lstopped since. (except for a brief late-Clinton era when America was turning the corner and Bush jr. utterly trashed it again).

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/economy/news/2012/08/30/33600/5-charts-on-the-state-of-the-middle-class/

I didn't expect this, I expected the UAW to cheat, or somehow pull this off. That said, they'll be back next year, and the year after, etc... but if they do why is it they'll never leave? Why is it, once in, always in? The "thing that would never leave". These folks will now probably get the Midsized SUV, because the cancer has been avoided. Way to go VW Employees (not "workers"), you're a part of whats being built there, not a cog in the gear, that the UAW would have you believe. You're employees and team members, not "workers".

Rockhead - keep your head in the sand and keep drinking the kook aide. Clinton was/is a narcissistic DB, his wife is worse and the current is worse the Jimmy Carter. You're clearly a leftist mooron, a true frog! Move to Cuba, we're not a Socialist nation and we don't want any of your collectivist BS. Clearly the USSR, Cuba, North Korea, etc... all good nations with centralized power in the hands of the elite few, clearly the people benefit there. Stuffington Post... great non biased site you're quoting...pathetic! Keynes was right and Friedman wrong, history shows other wise, revisionist toad.

I see, nothing but ad hominem attacks...with no data, no links, not even any attempt to debate the facts. Just pure, blind hate and red herring attacks on me, Clinton, Carter, etc, etc in nothing but a clear attempt to steer any discussion away from related facts and evidence.

You couldn't win a proper debate a 5 year old. Keep with the name-calling and sticking your head in the sand.. you'll fit right in with the right wing as it continues to crash itself right into the ground these days. I can post link after link after link clearly pointing out data and real world analysis about the American middle class not keeping up with the international upsurge in middle class wealth. And these countries are in general far more left-wing than anything Obama has proposed here in America. Keep watching Fox News and the willful ignorance it breeds.

Thats it!!... Just for that, I'm buying a VW!!...

Hey dingus... its called HISTORY! The truth is there if you want to find it... keep reading Crappington Post... and all the other "reliable "news" sources".... BTW where did I say anything hateful, might want to look in the mirror.