Volkswagen Challenges UAW's Desire To Have Select Group Of 165 Determine Unionization For Entire Plant

Volkswagen on Tuesday informed workers at its lone U.S. plant in Chattanooga, Tenn., that it is appealing a decision to allow the United Auto Workers union to seek collective bargaining rights for a small group of skilled workers.

The regional director of the National Labor Relations Board last month rejected Volkswagen’s arguments that only the entire 1,400-member hourly workforce at the plant should be allowed to vote on union representation, and not just the “micro unit” of 165 skilled-trades workers.

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atc98092 - 12/2/2015 6:23:16 PM

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I believe in this case VW could be correct. Bargaining Units need to include all who fall into a general classification. Engineers are separate from assembly workers. Air Traffic Controllers are separate from the Technical Operations group. It's certainly possible for the same union to cover multiple groups, but equivalent workers need to be in the same BU.

Now, if this select group of employees have unique skills that the remainder of the plant employees do not have, then sure, they can be their own BU. But that can't mean that this one group decides the BU for the entire plant. I see nothing in the article that states or implies what the BU status of the remainder of the employees would be.

MDarringer - 12/2/2015 7:38:54 PM

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The UAW needs to be fed to ISIS. Problem solved.