UAW will help Volkswagen, workers have a strong future

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I’ve worked at the Chattanooga Volkswagen facility for three years. When it first opened, Volkswagen workers from Germany came to help us set up. They told us about how management at their facilities works closely with organized labor and sees the benefits of it — and how they feel respected and love their company, so much that many had been proud employees for 15-20 years.

I want to see that kind of future for myself at Volkswagen, and I think it’s possible. I’ve had jobs before, but I believe that Volkswagen is where I can really have a career and a future. But to get there, something will need to change.

The key to Volkswagen’s success internationally has been its work councils. Volkswagen listens to its employees and gives them a seat at the table in discussions that affect them. In Chattanooga, we’re not at that table.

I didn’t start out pro-union. But when Bob King, president of the UAW, spoke in Chattanooga in 2011, I listened to what he had to say. The UAW folks made it clear that they care about the economic well-being, health and safety of the workers they represent and their communities. The more I thought about it, the clearer it became that I supported unionizing. Unions give people a say in the decisions that matter and a voice that’s heard louder and stronger when we’re speaking together

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http://www.tennessean.com/article/20140213/OPINION03/302130031

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1. Why is the GOP wanting to tell VW how to run their business?

Because it's not about business. It's about the last stand of authoritarian crackers as they try to stop progress in their own back yards. "Free Market" my ass.