Grover Norquist’S Anti-Union Group Takes Fight Against Uaw From Tennessee To Other States

[Purveyor]

By John Whitesides

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A conservative group that helped defeat an organizing campaign by the United Auto Workers in Tennessee will take its anti-union fight to other auto plants in the South, its leaders said on Monday.

The Center for Worker Freedom, which is linked to anti-tax advocate Grover Norquist, plans to renew its battle against the UAW at plants in Alabama and Mississippi where the union wants to organize.

“Those are likely the next big ones for the UAW,” said Matt Patterson, executive director of the center. “We’ll be there.”

The UAW suffered a bitter setback on Friday when employees at the Volkswagen AG plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, voted 712 to 626 against joining the union, even though Volkswagen had remained neutral in the union drive.

The loss was a blow to the union’s long-term plans to organize auto plants in the South. Patterson said his group would watch closely to see if the UAW adjusted its organizing strategy at the Daimler Mercedes-Benz plant in Vance, Alabama, and a Nissan Motor Co plant near Jackson, Mississippi.

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[Thinkingabout]

1. Now what could Grover Norquist been getting for fighting unions? probably money.

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He has a group and they pay him money. Yep, he has his own unions, they just don't seem to be in the AFL-CIO.

[okaawhatever]

2. Grover Norquist, unindicted co-conspirator to the Abramoff scandal, corrupt politician who helped

create the sweatshops in the Northern Mariana Islands, and NRA Board of Directors member.

From Source Watch, his plan during the second Bush administration:

Norquist described three key planks of his agenda for Bush's second term as President as being aimed at crippling the financial base of the Democratic Party. First, he told Walker, is tort reform which would mean "trial lawyers have fewer ways to get rich and can't give as much money to the Democratic Party". [30]
Secondly, he said, would be legislative changes making it harder for unions to provide funding to political parties, a measure aimed primarily aimed at cutting funding to the Democratic Party. Finally, the promotion of free trade which further weakens the influence of unions.

Even some Republicans are willing to reveal his true nature: Conservative columnist Tucker Carlson once called him a "mean-spirited, humorless, dishonest little creep ... the leering, drunken uncle everyone else wishes would stay home.


I think one of the reasons he's been laying low is because the new religious right doesn't like the fact that he's married to a Muslim from Palestine.

[octoberlib]

3. Interesting. K&R!

[spanone]

4. spreading fear and lies.