UAW Blames VW Union Vote On Republican Lawmakers - Could It Have Been The Deciding Factor?

The UAW on Tuesday asked a U.S. agency to stay an April 21 hearing related to a mid-February union vote it lost at a Tennessee Volkswagen plant, citing what it called new evidence of collusion between Republican lawmakers and anti-union groups.

The union was referring to a report aired on Nashville's NewsChannel5 late on Monday that cited email exchanges between anti-union groups, members of the staffs of Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam and U.S. Senator Bob Corker and other public officials.

According to the broadcast, the correspondence showed that Haslam's administration offered $300 million in economic incentives to help VW expand its operations in Chattanooga so long as the plant did not unionize.

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xjug1987a - 4/2/2014 2:45:14 PM

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Pathetic union rats will not stop... they said if they lost they'd go away for at least a year. Greedy, power mad, liars... YOU LOST, go the flip away!

MattDarringer - 4/2/2014 9:11:21 PM

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The UAW lost because workers are sick to death of the union financially raping them via dues that are funneled to the DNC. The time has come to ban unions for ALL political activity and restrict them ONLY to bargaining work-related issues. The sooner unions are banned from political activities the sooner they can get back to looking out for workers--WHICH THEY DO NOT DO.

chlyn001 - 4/12/2014 5:53:34 PM

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My union always looked out for me, and I lasted 30 some years. Thankfully I got paid a fair wage and I had a few workplace protections. Happily, I never needed much in the way of direct support. Management and labor can learn to work together fairly, and it's to everyone's benefit.