No sign of expansion at plant where UAW dealt loss

[Omaha Steve]

Source: (Yahoo) AP

By ERIK SCHELZIG

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Friday marks the end of the two-week period within which U.S. Sen. Bob Corker promised Volkswagen would announce another line at its factory in Tennessee if workers there rejected representation by the United Auto Workers union.

So far there's little sign of any pending announcement.

Workers at the Chattanooga plant ended up voting 712-626 against the UAW, in an election the union claims was tainted by threats and intimidation from Republicans like Corker, Gov. Bill Haslam and state lawmakers.

The UAW last week filed a challenge with the National Labor Relations Board, seeking to have results voided and a new election to be held.

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[DontTreadOnMe]

1. This is a decisive moment for labor

I wish Volkswagen would just pick up and leave Tennessee.

Start running the ads.. "Bob Corker.. bad for job creation... bad for Tennessee."

[leftyohiolib]

4. if this expansion doesnt go thru that's exactly what an opponent should do. great idea

[pipoman]

5. Why? Because the workers are desperate to keep their jobs

and believed that the UAW vote would risk losing them? I suspect that corkscrew knew something and VW changed their tune with all the publicity.

[okaawhatever]

7. It was more likely that the UAW was planning on the extra line regardless. The VW plant is not

profitable with only one line and was never intended to be a single line plant. Corker said if they voted against the union they would get the new line. He never said if they voted for the union they wouldn't get it. It makes sense that VW had decided to add the line and Corker used the information to his advantage. Since Corker used the word "rewarded", as in, the workers would be "rewarded" by voting against the union with a new car line one could almost consider it a bribe, but he never said they wouldn't get the line if the voted for the union.

[EC]

10. The way Corker phrased it covered the lie.

He never said he had talks with VW, just that he had talks. He could have been talking to himself for that matter, he didn't say. So he didn't talk to anyone that had any authority and he didn't care that he was lying. VW wanted the union so it could set up the council.

[LynneSin]

8. Delaware has an empty auto plant available and we are pro-union here!

We'd be happy to have our pro-union state make Volkswagons here in the USA

[AtheistCrusader]

2. Can't Corker be prosecuted for this shit?

[Half-Century Man]

3. If VW doesn't move the new line to Chattanooga

It would kill the Republican brand , if the reason they gave was "lack of formal worker organization".

[meegbear]

6. Really?

[SunSeeker]

11. LOL nt

[another_liberal]

9. Maybe Corker will say he's sorry he led workers on by promising new jobs like that?

Oh hell no he won't! You've got to know I was kidding about that nonsense!