re: VW Chattanooga Workers Expand Mexican Economic Growth

VW Wanted a collective bargaining agreement at their Tennessee plant initially. Their employees voted for a collective bargaining agreement. The Tennessee legislature got involved and put an end to the company and their employees agreeing to a CBA because the Tennessee GOP did not want the plant to have a CBA regardless of what the company wanted or the companies employees wanted. VW is accustomed to dealing with a representative of their employees....not individual employees. They prefer a CBA...its how they do business. Why anyone other than VW and VW employees think they know what's best for VW and VW employees is beyond me but the Tennessee GOP certainly thought they knew what was best.

VW has 122 plants in 32 countries including China, Mexico and Ghana. 121 of those plants have a collective bargaining agreement with VW because that is VW's preferred business model. The outlier is their Tennessee assembly plant where local politicians have adamantly opposed a collective bargaining agreement despite VW and VW employees expressing their desire to have said agreement.