Posts Tagged ‘United Auto Workers’
NILRR Clipsheet September 25, 2015
No more forced union dues for UAW autoworkers in 3 Midwest states Wisconsinwatchdog.org, September 23, 2015 The United Auto Workers may extend its current contract with the Big Three automakers, but that doesn’t mean UAW-represented employees in Wisconsin, Michigan and Indiana have to continue to pay union dues. But the National Right to Work Legal…
Read MoreUAW President – No Concessions
New UAW president, Dennis Williams, facing declining membership and arecent failed organizing campaign, vows to tolerate no concessions in future negotiations. United Auto Worker rank and file members believeWilliams can turnthe union’s fortunes afterUAW bosses were defeated in anorganizing campaignat Volkswagen in Chattanooga,Tennessee.Managementremained neutral throughout the campaign.Theworkers, however, voted uinon representation down, a signifigant loss…
Read MoreNLRB Certifies Vote Rejecting UAW
Tennessee’s Chattanooga Volkswagen plant workers won a victory as the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) certifed election results from a February vote which rejected representation by the United Auto Workers union. National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation attorneys represented workers who just wanted to work free from union boss interference. Melanie Trottman has the…
Read MoreIs It Really News to UAW Bosses That Their Political Partisanship Offends Many Workers?
In a whiny commentary for The American Prospect published three days after workers at the Volkswagen assembly plant in Chattanooga voted decisively against union monopoly bargaining last month, Harold Meyerson, the leftist magazine’s pro-forced unionism editor-at-large, bemoaned the role “cultural” considerations played in the campaign’s outcome. (See the link below to read Meyerson’s piece.) While…
Read MoreAuto Workers Union Official Admits: If Volkswagen’s Chattanooga Employees Hear Both Sides of the Story, Most Will Oppose Unionization
UAW hopes to get recognition at Chattanooga … – The Tennessean Why is it that top bosses of the United Auto Workers union are pressuring Volkswagen executives to recognize the UAW as the “exclusive” bargaining agent over employees at the firm’s facility in Chattanooga, Tenn., solely on the basis of union “authorization” cards signed by…
Read MoreRight to Work Tennessee ‘Finds Itself Home to a Larger Share of the Continent’s Automotive Jobs Than Ever Before’
New report highlights strengthof Tennessee’s auto sector | Nooga.com Drive!Moving Tennessee’s Automotive Sector Up the Value Chain… Late last week, Tennessee news outlets such as the Chattanooga-based web service Nooga.com (see the first link above) reported on a new analysis issued by the Washington, D.C.-based Brookings Institution (second link) regarding the Volunteer State’s remarkably…
Read MoreWhy United Auto Workers Union Czar Bob King Is Targeting Casino Employees
UAW’s King juggles diversification, southern strategy As Reuters reported earlier this week (see the news article linked above), United Auto Workers (UAW/AFL-CIO) union chieftain Bob King is now publicly suggesting his operation can survive and thrive in the future simply by acquiring “exclusive” bargaining control over additional employees in sectors like gambling, health care,…
Read More“There Will Be Blood”: Union Violence in the Age of Obama
From Michelle Malkin, a short overview on union violence, including the incidents which accompanied passage of Michigan’s Right to Work Law. Not so many moons ago, President Obama urged us all to “make sure that we are talking with each other in a way that heals, not a way that wounds.” He Who Heals…
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