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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Wall Street Journal notes the dangers of the “card check” unionization system in an editorial about the UAW’s efforts to trick workers in a VW plant in Tennessee to join the union.
As union bosses try to tell tall tales to auto workers in Tennessee, Mike Patterson sets them straight with his own version: Once upon a time, in Chattanooga a young girl made her way to…