As the National Right to Work Committee blog reported on Tuesday, next week a vote will be held at the Volkswagen assembly plant in Chattanooga, Tenn., to determine whether or not officers of a single union, the United Auto Workers…
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…
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…
Over 500 Volkswagen employees are fighting back against an effort to unionize their plant in Tennessee. 563 hourly employees signed petitions against unionization. “There are no duplicates,” said plant worker Mike Burton. “I made sure it was a scrubbed list. They’re…
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.
Under American traditions of limited government, affiliation with a private organization is, the vast majority of the time, a purely personal decision. It’s not a collective decision. For example, the mere fact that most businesses in a town choose to…
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…
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…
“Michelin, Bridgestone, Continental Shift Tire Industry Locus to South Carolina” “The migration of tire production out of Ohio to southern states has been spurred by state and local government tax incentives and the states’ right-to-work laws that make union…