The GOP attacks a union drive at VW — though the company's in favor

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In short, the GOP is meddling in the affairs of a private company and threatening to harm its business should VW workers vote to unionize. If DNC chair Debbie Wasserman-Schultz doesn't make hay of this, then she is more useless (or bought off) than I thought.

http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-tennessee-union-drive-20140212,0,1883327.story

The GOP attacks a union drive at VW — though the company's in favor

By Michael Hiltzik
February 12, 2014, 4:42 p.m.

Some 1,500 employees at Volkswagen's factory in Chattanooga, Tenn., started voting today on whether to affiliate with the United Auto Workers. Here are a couple of interesting points about this vote, which will continue through Friday.

--Volkswagen's in favor.

--Tennessee Republicans, including Gov. Bill Haslam and Sen. Bob Corker, have been threatening the company with retribution if the vote succeeds.

Reading the remarks of the state's GOP politicians is like a trip through cloud-cuckoo-land. Here's a statement sent to the Detroit Free Press by State Sen. Bo Watson of Chattanooga: "Volkswagen has promoted a campaign that has been unfair, unbalanced and, quite frankly, un-American in the traditions of American labor campaigns .... Should the workers choose to be represented by the United Auto Workers, then I believe additional incentives for expansion will have a very tough time passing the Tennessee Senate."

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1. The last stand of the authoritarian crackers and their plantation philosophy

"Free market conservative" my eye. It's about control and nothing more.