Tennessee Archives

March 7

Volkswagen Executives Apparently Colluding With Big Labor Bosses to Overturn Chattanooga Workers' Vote Against Unionization

Last month, Volkswagen executives who were facing intense pressure from German union officials to facilitate the unionization of the VW assembly plant located in Right to Work Tennessee did practically everything they could to help United Auto Workers (UAW/AFL-CIO) union…

February 21

UAW Won't Leave Tennessee Even After Being Rejected by VW Employees

From the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation: Washington, DC (February 21, 2014) – United Auto Workers (UAW) union officials have filed objections with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to the…

February 17

President Obama Forgot All About the VW Workers in Chattanooga

For reasons I won’t discuss here, Volkswagen (VW) executives have been so biased in favor of United Auto Workers (UAW/AFL-CIO) union officials’ campaign to secure monopoly-bargaining privileges over employees at the company’s assembly plant in Chattanooga, Tenn., that they were willing to break…

February 12

Are Volkswagen Executives Breaking Federal Law to Assist UAW Union Organizers?

As Diana Furchtgott-Roth, a former chief economist with the U.S. Labor Department and now a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, reported in a commentary appearing yesterday on the web site RealClearMarkets, Volkswagen (VW) executives appear to be violating U.S.

February 7

'Workers Should Be Given All the Facts Before the Election So That They Can Make an Informed Choice'

It was more than 70 years ago that Justice Robert Jackson famously declared, in his U.S. Supreme Court majority opinion resolving West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, that free speech and other core constitutional rights of the individual…

January 30

What the Fahrvergnügen? VW Union Boss Says U.S. Southern States Worse Than North Korea

In the 1990s, Volkswagen (VW) ran an advertising campaign with Fahrvergnügen, a mysterious German word that seemed to have no equivalent in the English language.  Maybe,  Detlef Wetzel, Germany’s IG Metall Union Chairman…

November 11

Detroit News - Union Bosses Continue Tired Old Union Antics

The Detroit News takes note of union bosses’ antics in Michigan that they continue to use to try to make teachers crawl over glass before they can stop paying tribute to the union. Shut out of foreign-run auto plants, the United Auto…

October 29

UAW's King: Secret Ballot Elections Not In Best Interest of UAW

Mississippi Governor Haley Barber exposes UAW’s anti-worker stance: Anyone curious about the actual motivations behind the United Auto Workers’ attempt to unionize southern automakers need only look to Chattanooga, Tenn., where the union is actively campaigning to organize the local…

October 10

German Volkswagen Board Union Rep Says Give Tennessee VW Employees Secret Ballot Vote

German union rep. Bernd Osterloh says Tennessee VW employees should be allowed to have a secret ballot vote.   The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation is actively fighting to protect the employees at the VW Chattanooga plant. More about Osterloh’s comments from the…