Chattanooga VW Workers Plan To Fight UAW Challenge To Organization Vote

Although workers at Volkswagen’s Chattanooga, Tennessee facility last week voted against allowing UAW’s unionization, the debate around the issue remained, with the union challenging the vote on outside interference.

Now, an anti-union group also said that five workers from the plant seek to challenge the objection filed with the National Labor Relations Board. The UAW filed an objection to the vote with the federal government, saying that its 712-to-626 loss was improperly outside influenced by politicians like Republican Senator Bob Corker.
 

MattDarringer - 2/26/2014 7:14:54 PM

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The workers don't want the union but VW and the UAW want to force it on them. Is Gestapo how you spell VWUAW?

atc98092 - 2/26/2014 8:13:20 PM

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VW isn't forcing the UAW on them. VW wants a Works council, same as their other plants. The workers would like it too, but US labor laws require a union to be part of it. It's just the workers don't want the UAW, and I don't blame them.

If the law requires them to have a union in place to have the works council, there are plenty of others to choose from.

MattDarringer - 2/26/2014 10:56:42 PM

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VW most decidedly IS forcing the UAW on the workers because VW wants the union so it can turn the American operation into the toilet bowl mess they have in Germany.

mini22 - 2/27/2014 2:57:12 PM

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Well-VAG also has the power to build another plant somewhere else in the US and close down this one. Moist likely if there is no "works council",there will be no future model investment in Chatanooga. The hand writing would then be on the wall.