U.S. union UAW close to organizing at Volkswagen plant: paper

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

U.S. union UAW close to organizing at Volkswagen plant: paper

FRANKFURT | Thu Sep 12, 2013 5:23am EDT

(Reuters) - Volkswagen's factory at Chattanooga, Tennessee, is close to becoming the first U.S. car assembly plant run by a foreign company to have its workers officially represented by the United Auto Workers (UAW) union, a German paper reported.

"Yes, we have a majority," UAW boss Bob King was quoted saying by business daily Handelsblatt in a preview of an article to be published on Friday.

More than 50 percent of the employees at the plant, which according to VW figures numbered 2,415, had signed union cards and registered as future union members, the paper said.

Volkswagen declined to comment, but its human resources director defended the union's attempts to organize at Chattanooga.

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[mountain grammy]

1. It's depressing to read the quote from the human resources director

who said "I find it very depressing how deeply divided the country is on the issue of labor unions."

Depressing indeed. 30 years of non stop anti union propaganda. Those of us who have been a part of labor unions and know their value have been depressed, suppressed, and bullied for years; blindsided by an American president who was actually, at one time, a union president.