UAW Says It Is Almost Ready To Take Over VW's Chattanooga Plant

UAW Says It Is Almost Ready To Take Over VW's Chattanooga Plant
The United Auto Workers, which lost a controversial organizing vote in February at a Volkswagen AG plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, has nearly enough members in its newly formed local for the automaker to recognize it as exclusive bargaining agent for the plant, a top union official said on Friday.

If the union is able to prove to Volkswagen that it has support from a majority of the plant's approximately 1,500 hourly workers, VW can select it as the exclusive bargaining agent for all of them, despite the loss to UAW foes in the vote.

Gary Casteel, UAW secretary-treasurer, would not say how many VW workers are now UAW Local 42 members, but said there are enough to have won the February election. The UAW lost by a 712-626 count, which means that Local 42 has at least 670 members, which Casteel confirmed.


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TheSteveTheSteve - 8/18/2014 4:54:11 PM
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"Take over" is the operative word, as in winning a battle and assuming control over the conquered. It's quite different than "assist and support," but that's the UAW for ya: "Us vs Them" mentality instead of team-building and working collaboratively.


Terry989Terry989 - 8/18/2014 6:55:26 PM
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You do realize that the flame bait word "Take Over" was never mentioned in the actual article?


upwardsupwards - 8/19/2014 1:54:06 AM
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You confuse 009s words with the actual UAW dialogue. 009 uses that language to inspire hate.



TheSteveTheSteve - 8/19/2014 5:09:35 PM
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With due respect to posters "Terry989" and "upwards", I acknowledge the article didn't use the phrase "take over." Although I can't speak for 009's intentions, I stand behind my expressed view that the UAW is in line with "taking over" a plant as opposed to "assisting and supporting" a facility, and that "Us vs Them" mentality runs rampant instead of team-building and working collaboratively.

No businessman in his right mind wakes up one day and thinks, "I want to become more competitive; I want to increase my value proposition to my customers; I want to be more agile, more responsive to changing market conditions; I want to lower my costs and pass those savings to my customers by way of a lower price, and in doing so, undermine my competitors... I need to unionize the shop!"


chewychewy - 8/18/2014 5:40:59 PM
+6 Boost
Defeats the purpose of building the plant there more or less.


mre30mre30 - 8/18/2014 7:36:31 PM
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The tone of this piece, makes the UAW's "takeover" of the VW plant..sound the same as Vladimir Putin "taking over" the Crimea or trying to take over the Ukraine.

Very disconcerting... no wonder VW is so out of sync with the US. Unionizing a US plant is not the secret to being sucessful in the US market.


MattDarringerMattDarringer - 8/18/2014 7:42:53 PM
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The UAW goons with clusterbam VW when it's down and VW will shutter the plant.


MattDarringerMattDarringer - 8/18/2014 7:43:19 PM
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"will" not "with"


absentabsent - 8/19/2014 7:39:45 AM
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I hope it happens, will teach a valuable lesson the idiots who bought the propaganda and false promises of UAW.
Nowadays unions are the scourge of US Economy and people who truly want a job.


gkearns56gkearns56 - 8/19/2014 9:36:14 AM
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The UAW are bunch goons. I would never buy an American made car by UAW people. Watch this video and see how these Chrysler workers got off scott free with this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVmKyJXHXRE



MattDarringerMattDarringer - 8/19/2014 10:03:06 PM
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And the products will be even more shitty than they are now.
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