Not with a Bang, but a Whimper
Posted by freedomforall 11 years, 10 months ago to Business
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The most recent news on the UAW’s attempt to unionize the VW autoworkers in Chattanooga, Tennessee is interesting.
Despite enormous advantages, including the Obama administration’s blatantly partisan efforts to game the game in favor of the UAW, the union lost the vote. The union that nearly destroyed the American automakers, gleefully driving two of them into bankruptcy — a bankruptcy that ripped off taxpayers for tens of billions of dollars and left one of the companies merely a division of the Italian automaker Fiat — couldn’t overcome its unsavory reputation and convince the workers that it wouldn’t destroy their jobs and city as well.
The most recent news on the UAW’s attempt to unionize the VW autoworkers in Chattanooga, Tennessee is interesting.
Despite enormous advantages, including the Obama administration’s blatantly partisan efforts to game the game in favor of the UAW, the union lost the vote. The union that nearly destroyed the American automakers, gleefully driving two of them into bankruptcy — a bankruptcy that ripped off taxpayers for tens of billions of dollars and left one of the companies merely a division of the Italian automaker Fiat — couldn’t overcome its unsavory reputation and convince the workers that it wouldn’t destroy their jobs and city as well.
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- 2Posted by $ stargeezer 11 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.This didn't happen in Detroit. I'm not convinced that the union loyalists there would not have crawled out from under the rubble of their city to claim victory and lay the union mark of the product they made - as if being made by a union shop meant any thing.| Permalink
- 1Posted by LetsShrug 11 years, 10 months agoHmmm are people waking up?| Permalink
