Tenn. GOPer slams Volkswagen: Creating 200,000 jobs is ‘intentionally’ a ‘magnet for unionized labor

[KamaAina]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/03/tenn-goper-slams-volkswagen-creating-200000-jobs-is-intentionally-a-magnet-for-unionized-labor/

Tennessee Republican state Sen. Bo Watson warned on Tuesday that a plan to bring 200,000 jobs to his state was a “magnet for unionized labor, intentionally.”

According to Chattanooga Times Free Press, Watson told the state Senate Commerce Committee that approving $165.8 million in tax incentives for Volkswagen was dangerous because unions could change the “culture” of Tennessee....

The Chattanooga Republican turned to several Volkswagen officials and demanded that they explain why the vice chairman of VW’s European and Global Group Works Council had pledged to spread the United Auto Workers “far beyond Tennessee.”

David Geanacopoulos, the CEO of Volkswagen Group of America’s Chattanooga operations, explained to Watson that VW Works Council was an elected organization that was mandated by German law and that it was independent from company management.

[Kingofalldems]

1. I guess he means the Plantation Culture.

[WinkyDink]

2. Everything, from jobs to immigration, is merely a plot to get more registered "D"'s.

[brush]

3. So what's the story, he doesn't want 200,000 jobs in his state because they're union jobs? nt

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[CANDO]

4. Fucking upside down world these bastards are living in

When good paying union jobs are portrayed as something bad. Only in the fucked up world of a Republican.

[gratuitous]

7. It would change their culture

You know . . . "culture." Change it. Folks in Tennessee don't like that. Culture change. No sirree. Not a bit. They like their culture, and they don't want anyone changing it.

If you listen closely, you can hear why the dog is barking his fool head off.

[muntrv]

5. Bo loves unemployment.

[salin]

6. How DARE You bring high wage jobs to our state!

[Pakid]

8. Hey VW bring those job up here to PA

we have a lot less right-wing nuts in most of our bigger cities. Can't say the same thing for our rural areas

[Politicalboi]

9. VW should reconsider where they go

Let Tenn drown in their own stupidity.

[Initech]

10. How much are the Koch Bros paying him to say that?