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…
Yesterday morning, front-line employees at the Volkwagen (VW) assembly plant located in Chattanooga, Tenn., learned that a vote will be held next week to determine whether or not officers of a single union, the United Auto Workers (UAW), will acquire…
From an article called “Blue-collar support for McAuliffe fraying at the edges,” Terry McAuliffe while raking in Big Labor money and he refuses to say he supports Virginia’s Right to Work…
For well over three decades, union organizing drives have more and more frequently adopted the “top-down,” or “cram-down,” unionism approach. Through actual or threatened litigation, accusations of regulatory violations, negative PR campaigns, and other types of pressure, union bosses browbeat…
In the 2013 edition of their Union Membership and Earnings Data Book, labor economists Barry Hirsch and David Macpherson report data showing that, from 2002 to 2012, unionized employment in motor-vehicle and motor-vehicle-equipment manufacturing fell from roughly 413,700 to 208,000,…
Just how far are top bosses of the United Auto Workers (UAW/AFL-CIO) union and their agents willing to go to secure monopoly-bargaining power over production employees at the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tenn.? According to a number of independent-minded employees…