http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2014/apr/07/vw-considering-tossing-election-results-and-accept/?breakingnews>This would be great news.
An anti-union group said today that Volkswagen is considering disregarding the February election results over United Auto Workers representation at the Chattanooga plant and accepting authorization cards the union claims to have collected last year.
Matt Patterson of the Center for Worker Freedom said that such a course of action “would hand over its Chattanooga assembly plant to the UAW in spite of that union’s failure to win a February secret ballot election.”
VW workers rejected the union in a 712 to 626 vote after a three-day election overseen by the National Labor Relations Board.
News that VW is considering disregarding the February election results comes on the heels of reports the administration of Republican Gov. Bill Haslam threatened to withdraw $300 million in promised incentives to Volkswagen of America if the vote to unionize VW’s plant in Chattanooga was successful.
VW knows that its unions across the world facilitate better management/worker conditions, as well as a higher quality of worker and product. Any political wedge that is inserted between management/worker cooperation is to be avoided. It is telling that the best automobile reputations across the world are in Japan and Germany where unions are historically strong and cooperative.