Republicans Kill 13,000 Jobs In Tennessee With Anti-Union Vote.

[onehandle]

Executives at Volkswagen met last night to discuss the closure of a plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee after workers there voted to reject the formation of a worker’s council through joining the United Autoworkers Union (UAW). The closure of the plant will cost an estimated 13,000 jobs.

Following intense conservative campaigning against the prospect of workers in the state joining a union, Bernd Osterloh, speaking for Volkswagen, said that the company would look to other parts of the US for opening new plants in the future:

“I can imagine fairly well that another VW factory in the United States, provided that one more should still be set up there, does not necessarily have to be assigned to the south again.”

Osterloch also went on to openly attack the anti-union elements in Tennessee who he said were ultimately responsible for the decision to close the plant: “The conservatives stirred up massive, anti-union sentiments. It’s possible that the conclusion will be drawn that this interference amounted to unfair labor praxis.”

http://crooksandliars.com/2014/02/republicans-kill-13000-jobs-tennessee-anti

[Romulox]

1. VW didn't locate in an impoverished Southern Right-to-Work state because it wanted a union presence.

[LuvNewcastle]

3. True, but they didn't expect their German labor to raise hell about it.

Labor actually has power in Germany. They have some say in the company's decisions. Cheap labor wasn't the only reason for locating in TN, though. Southern states promise auto companies all sorts of things to get them to locate there. They offer them tax breaks, land and buildings, and lots of other amenities. German VW workers have made it clear that the money the company is saving by locating factories in the South won't be worth it in the long run. If a union-friendly state gets a VW factory, they'll have German labor to thank for it.

[former9thward]

2. Fake article but I guess that is ok for GD.

[Springslips]

5. I was wondering about that.

Almost put it on Facebook but double check the source. Good thing. For all my snopes induce correcting on RWingers post I do on there, I would have set myself up for some hellacious payback. Dodged the bullet.

Sigh! Can we please not fall for fakery? Be better than the right. That article doesn't qualify as satire, it is not funny.

[dotymed]

4. As a retired Union carpenter

who moved "home" to Tn., I was sickened by the lies told to the VW workers and their vote to not Unionize.
However I have not seen or read any official word that the VW plant will close its doors. I am worried that this may happen, however
the link nor the OP contained an official declaration by VW of closing the facility.

[former9thward]

7. It is a fake story.

Why the OP does not delete it I don't know.

[dotymed]

10. Thanks.

BTW, right after Katrina,(for about a year) I spent most Sundays volunteering my carpentry skills in the Ninth ward. Some of the best people I ever met were there. "Gentrification" is a horrendous practice that hurt so many great people. Bless you.
I owe my life to Jefferson hospital (Metarie), they were the only hospital that stayed open (that I know of) during and after the catastrophe that was Katrina.

[former9thward]

11. Thank you for your work but I'm not from NO.

The name refers to a minor elective office I once held in Chicago.

[Capt. Obvious]

6. I've been trying to find confirmation on this story

Nada from traditional outlets.

The source for the link is now deleted, and the Daily Kos diary (that probably was the start of this) about it is now deleted.

[liberal N proud]

8. This may be a fake story but here is some information about the VW facility

Nearly as damning of the republican meddling...


After UAW Loss, Plant Shows No Sign Of Expansion

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.

The appeal cited warnings from GOP lawmakers that a pro-union vote would endanger key state incentives to secure the new line at the plant, and Corker's statements that a vote against the union would be followed in short order an expansion announcement.

"If the UAW is voted down they're going to come here immediately, within a two week period, and affirm they're going to build a line here," Corker told The Associated Press the day before the conclusion of the three-day vote.

The Senator also dismissed the repeated claim by Volkswagen that a decision about whether to build a new SUV either in Chattanooga or at a plant in Mexico was unrelated to the union vote.

"There is no way I'd put out a statement like I put out unless I was 1,000 percent that it was accurate in every way," Corker said at the time.

http://www.mbtmag.com/news/2014/02/after-uaw-loss-plant-shows-no-sign-expansion?et_cid=3795706&et_rid=652347563&location=top

[Fawke Em]

9. Lying bastard.

Corker - not you.