Tennessee Officials Need To Lay Off Volkswagen, Which Wants a Union

[votesparks]

Officials from Volkswagen are in talks with the UAW about proceeding with the process of unionization in order to form a Works Council that would negotiate and deal with workplace issues, as is done in all of Volkswagen's other production facilities.

But Tennessee politicians are upset, saying that a move towards unionizing the facility could hurt the state and region's attempts to attract car manufacturers to the region.

[mtasselin]

1. can't hear

I was not able to hear, but could watch the video, in Europe it is common to have the unions sit on the board of directors not a bad idea.

[pam4water]

2. Really the sound was crazy loud for me.

[votesparks]

3. Sounds like your computer

Sounds loud and clear here on more than one computer.

[Populist_Prole]

4. The opposition to VW makes no sense at all; businesswise or logical. Just old south authoritarianism

Bunch of flaming ideologues those pols from Tn.

Of course they're thinking long view in that a successful VW venture there will kick the legs out from underneath the race to the bottom business model and the proles will get too uppity.

[RC]

5. You nailed it.

Too often the workers are just more machinery that need a minimum of maintenance to keep them working. Get them despite enough and even that minimum is not needed.