re: Right To Work at the Chattanooga VW Plant

You are so arrogant

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They voted against their own best interests.

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Since you are all knowing tell me what my best interests are.

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Since you are all knowing tell me what my best interests are.

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Stop posting and toward the light

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“If we had had a union, [what happened to me] would never have happened,” she said.

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What happened to her??

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In other words, the entire article is bullshite written by the above candy arse.

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I'm pretty sure the OP is some kind of union rep.

The UAW is a cancer, but not all unions are created equal. Like almost everything else in life, extremes at either end of the spectrum create issues. I have been a member of an in-house union for almost 20 years at a privately held company which I think has been beneficial to my family, and my company. Growing up in the Deep South, and after spending twenty years in the military, I was very apprehensive about being in a union. It became apparent very early on that a union centered on balancing fairness for employees, along with ensuring profitability for the company is a positive thing for all sides.

You are probably one of those union pos thugs. frick you and your unions

Private sector unions in and of themselves are a net neutral economic and moral entity. I think that's important to understand for all here.

There are some fantastic unions out there that simultaneously manage to both ensure quality working conditions and solid pay AND add value to their firm.

Then you have organizations like the UAW, the tobacco unions, and many others who have a generation's worth of spectacular failure, corruption, and incompetence that do little else but suck value out of the economy and ensure American economic failure. The UAW halcyon days of the 1980's when workers were often high, drunk, and soliciting prostitutes on the job are fresh in many minds.

The difference always is in the company context, the culture and size of the union, the specifics of the organized labor contracts, and so forth. Union analogs analogs in other countries can work pretty damn well (Germany, Scandinavia, the Netherlands, Japan) or be horrific drains on their economies (France, Italy, Spain, Latin America, Britain to an extent).

Public sector unions should be illegal. I am right now witnessing first-hand, step by step, the horrid nature of these beasts here in Chicago.

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There is no 'union' in the culture of Tennessee. They voted against their own best interests.

And Volkswagen as a global company can decided to transfer the manufacture of those cars to a plant somewhere else if they do.

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VW management actually encourages the formation of a union. It is part of their structure. Union members sit on VW's board.

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They voted against their own best interests

You're living 50 years in the past.

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That is about right. Fifty years ago people saw the value of Unions.