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On Friday, Volkswagen employees in Chattanooga, Tennessee, voted overwhelmingly to join the United Auto Workers union. This is a truly big deal. The mainstream media most of whom no longer have labor reporters have barely mentioned it, but I believe it marks a major turning point for organized labor.
The victory in Chattanooga is the first successful organizing drive of an automaker outside of Detroits Big Three and the first major union victory in the South.
Volkswagen had told workers in a very conservative Republican area that the UAW = Biden and that the union would turn Chattanooga into Detroit. Six southern state governors attacked the union as a threat to liberty and freedoms and in a joint statement condemned the UAWs push to organize in their states. But the union and the workers triumphed anyway.
We are witnessing a historic rebirth of the labor union movement in America. Labor unions are not just an interest group. They are gaining the heft, solidarity, and passion to become what they once were a movement. And its about time.
https://www.alternet.org/labor-movement-2667834162/
Hekate
(90,835 posts)This country needs to be unionized
lindysalsagal
(20,733 posts)cstanleytech
(26,322 posts)Why? Because even lube would have made the wealthy spend some of the money they have stolen from the workers.
ancianita
(36,137 posts)It helped that their kids criticized their ignorance about labor history and corporate/political propaganda.
The decades of anti-labor propaganda are pretty much all but over.