Volkswagen's Labor Chief Threatens To Block Further Investments To US Plant Over UAW Vote

Sounds to me like Bob Corker does not understand the way the German system works. He made an assumption based on his own belief that all auto companies are anti-union. It looks like unless Chatanooga unionizes VAG could build another plant elsewhere and 1,300 people could be out of a job.VAG has the money to do it too.

This is why VW is not doing well in NA. Their arrogance knows no bounds ditto their idiocy. The UAW is an anathema to the American auto industry. Now VW wants to inflict this cancer not only on themselves but also on the workers. VW needs to invest heavily in the USA if they want to reach their sales volume goal of 800,000 cars per year. Threatening to pull investment and jobs if workers DON'T unionize shows VW's arrogant disdain for the workers. VW just crossed off a LOT of sales to potential "right to work" customers.

Labor-management partnerships or so-called "councils" are the result of a long, long evolutionary process that has few proponents outside of U.S. Federal Government circles where decision making can be partitioned between general housekeeping and mission-essential decisions reserved for the military command. It is naive to think that our inherently adversarial unions, particularly those whose upper echelons bear more resemblance to organized criminal enterprises than legitimate representational bodies, will ever mesh with a collaborative model like that enjoyed by unions in Europe.

The UAW will do ANYTHING, to continue to get the dues.... these comments by VW's labor rep in Germany stinks of an orchestrated effort to intimidate and FORCE the union on the Chattanooga employees. The UAW is cancer period. VW may not care about whether they organize or not but they care about costs, so if Chattanooga is unionized and Mexico isn't, guess where the further investment goes, not to Tennessee... its that simple.