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Omaha Steve

(99,663 posts) Tue Dec 22, 2015, 09:47 PM Dec 2015

The auto workers union and the VW are squaring off at a plant in Tennessee

Source: Reuters

DETROIT - The United Auto Workers union has filed charges against Volkswagen AG, claiming the company is refusing to enter into collective bargaining for a portion of workers at its Chattanooga, Tennessee, factory, the union said on Tuesday.

The charges were filed with the National Labor Relations Board on Monday.

On Dec. 4, more than 70 percent of the 161 skilled trades workers at the VW plant voted to join the UAW. There are about 1,450 auto assembly workers at the plant.

The outcome was seen as important for the union because it was the first time workers at an auto assembly plant in the southern U.S. owned by a foreign automaker voted to join the UAW.

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The Volkswagen Chattanooga Assembly Plant in Chattanooga

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/r-uaw-says-volkswagen-refuses-collective-bargaining-for-tennessee-workers-2015-12

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The auto workers union and the VW are squaring off at a plant in Tennessee (Original Post) Omaha Steve Dec 2015 OP

So VW was only posing as pro-union. Between that and the pollution scandal, pnwmom Dec 2015 #1

After all that scandal, VW ought to think over their intransigence Proserpina Dec 2015 #2

VW wants every employee under one contract Omaha Steve Dec 2015 #4

This is one aspect of organizing Dyedinthewoolliberal Dec 2015 #6

I don't disagree, BUT.............. socialist_n_TN Dec 2015 #7

Surprising. Yet here we are. Solidarity! nt silvershadow Dec 2015 #3

Always look for the union label. marble falls Dec 2015 #5

pnwmom

(108,980 posts)

1. So VW was only posing as pro-union. Between that and the pollution scandal,

Reply to Omaha Steve (Original post)

Tue Dec 22, 2015, 09:51 PM

Dec 2015

I'm not getting another one of their cars.

Proserpina

(2,352 posts)

2. After all that scandal, VW ought to think over their intransigence

Reply to pnwmom (Reply #1)

Tue Dec 22, 2015, 10:08 PM

Dec 2015

Omaha Steve

(99,663 posts)

4. VW wants every employee under one contract

Reply to pnwmom (Reply #1)

Wed Dec 23, 2015, 10:18 AM

Dec 2015

They want to avoid different contracts for different jobs. So the paint shop, assemblers, and janitors all have one inclusive contract like many US/Canada shops have.

Not sticking up for them, just explaining what their goal is.

OS

Dyedinthewoolliberal

(15,579 posts)

6. This is one aspect of organizing

Reply to Omaha Steve (Reply #4)

Thu Dec 24, 2015, 12:56 PM

Dec 2015

That the IWW had right. All workers should be in one union. In this case the UAW should figure out a way to bring those workers into the union....

socialist_n_TN

(11,481 posts)

7. I don't disagree, BUT..............

Reply to Omaha Steve (Reply #4)

Sat Dec 26, 2015, 01:54 PM

Dec 2015

do not ever mistake VW for being anything but a capitalist concern. They're not as intransigent as most corporations in some ways (because of the social democratic gains of the last century, NOT because they're inherently "better" than the rest), but I believe they relocated in Tennessee at least partially for the non-union politics and culture of this state.

silvershadow

(10,336 posts)

3. Surprising. Yet here we are. Solidarity! nt

Reply to Omaha Steve (Original post)

Wed Dec 23, 2015, 04:42 AM

Dec 2015

marble falls

(57,112 posts)

5. Always look for the union label.

Reply to Omaha Steve (Original post)

Wed Dec 23, 2015, 04:48 PM

Dec 2015

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