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In reply to the discussion: VW threatens to block any future expansion plans in the South, citing conservative interference [View all]badtoworse
(5,957 posts)10. My experience being in one and dealings I've had over the years.
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VW threatens to block any future expansion plans in the South, citing conservative interference [View all]
kpete
Feb 2014
OP
No the Southern folks that voted against....and the Republicans that convinced them to...
VanillaRhapsody
Feb 2014
#13
It most certainly does NOT mean the same thing. The expression is "to spite" because it means a
WinkyDink
Feb 2014
#268
FFS, If you insist on being the first one to remove all doubt, at least get the fucking cliche right
Egalitarian Thug
Feb 2014
#188
you sound like someone who is ok with election results that are tampered with
Pretzel_Warrior
Feb 2014
#4
the main problem did not lie with Volkswagon management. It was outside political interests headed
Pretzel_Warrior
Feb 2014
#22
Politicians are prohibited from providing threats or incentives in labor votes.
eggplant
Feb 2014
#67
Of course! VW has a good reason to want a unionwhere workers are paid a living wage...who else
CTyankee
Feb 2014
#319
I do not support that behavior in the least. but it is not vote tampering
Pretzel_Warrior
Feb 2014
#27
sounds like he already belonged to a union and wasn't willing to pay short term
Pretzel_Warrior
Feb 2014
#57
snore. I said none of those things. you sound like most conservatives who try to
Pretzel_Warrior
Feb 2014
#66
I'm not speaking for Pretzel Warrior, but no, destroying property etc. is not right.
A HERETIC I AM
Feb 2014
#292
if he was already in the union- then this is an example of something else, isn't it?
bettyellen
Feb 2014
#293
This is an absurbly false comparison, as has been repeatedly pointed out to you.
eggplant
Feb 2014
#68
I bet Joe doesn't know that EVEN if his friend voted AGAINST the Union....Union would STILL
VanillaRhapsody
Feb 2014
#165
Like I asked above, what do you think about attempts to remove the secret vote?
joeglow3
Feb 2014
#86
Fine. And a socialist state wouldn't interfere with your "passion"......
socialist_n_TN
Feb 2014
#334
THAT is called "working scab".......there is a reason for that....look it up...
VanillaRhapsody
Feb 2014
#162
YOU Definitely do NOT know what you are talking about.....educate yourself
VanillaRhapsody
Feb 2014
#173
and screw YOU for taking the benefits YOU'VE received regardless of your support....
VanillaRhapsody
Feb 2014
#243
Nobody is advocating it....but if he crossed that picket line...he is stepping on OTHERS
VanillaRhapsody
Feb 2014
#301
WOW. That is like the scum who say a woman should expect to be raped based on their dress
joeglow3
Feb 2014
#254
Yes. Workers who scab on strikes are the true free-loaders in our country. They think they are
JDPriestly
Feb 2014
#227
tampering would be politicians illegally making threats to influence the outcome of a labor vote
arely staircase
Feb 2014
#191
Expel these infiltrators? Infiltrators, by their very nature, seek to remain under the radar
Enthusiast
Feb 2014
#237
And I can appreciate that but do you need to piss on all unions for that one incident
madokie
Feb 2014
#96
and so amazingly like every single reichwing anti-union meme we ever hear. triangle? ludlow?
niyad
Feb 2014
#150
Because we know that corporations always go out of their way to provide the best
neverforget
Feb 2014
#154
You're proud of a 0.3 Productivity Factor? I'd be embarrassed, but to each his own.
badtoworse
Feb 2014
#200
one experience, with one person? wow. . .just. . .wow. you mentioned other dealings--care to
niyad
Feb 2014
#98
"my experience be in one"?? huh?? do you mean "being in one"?? if so, which union? and what
niyad
Feb 2014
#90
You should stay off the bus. Drivers have unions and we know how much you hate unions.
bravenak
Feb 2014
#306
That's just not true. I do use the services, but they could also be provided by non-union workers.
badtoworse
Feb 2014
#313
I think southerners are no less intelligent than any other demographic group.
badtoworse
Feb 2014
#18
I am not discussing with you that YOU think you work harder than everyone else
VanillaRhapsody
Feb 2014
#126
sad how many people have no idea what those three words mean, and I know the anniversary
niyad
Feb 2014
#160
I am just fuming tonight over this turn of events....I guess we now know that there really ARE
VanillaRhapsody
Feb 2014
#161
as richard wolff was saying in one of his speeches (just happened to catch part of it the other day)
niyad
Feb 2014
#169
Yeah...doubling down...everyone that gets laid off....deserves it...they just don't work as hard as
VanillaRhapsody
Feb 2014
#62
In a non-union environment the guy that works harder doesn't always get rewarded. My father worked in
doc03
Feb 2014
#114
Unions are just bad? I worked 40 years in a steel mill and have a good pension and
doc03
Feb 2014
#140
So because you aren't concerned about asshole employers, that should comfort the rest of us?
eggplant
Feb 2014
#72
From this post it doesn't look like you have a clue what the "Right to Work" law
doc03
Feb 2014
#141
Because without context you are basically you are having an illogical argument.
fleabiscuit
Feb 2014
#247
After 20 years of working in my area (the average tenure for people at my level)
joeglow3
Feb 2014
#257
counting some pronouns: "I" = 15, "my" = 6, total words = 165, %(I,my) = 21/165 = 12.7% > 1/8
0rganism
Feb 2014
#275
And I believe that Right To Work is bullshit propaganda to fool the employees into thinking
VanillaRhapsody
Feb 2014
#151
Tennessee is a "Right to work" state, but still has plenty of Union jobs....
Ghost in the Machine
Feb 2014
#143
Because you responded to someone from MY State with the following...
Ghost in the Machine
Feb 2014
#187
That's because German management works with the workers, instead of against them
pangaia
Feb 2014
#46
Yep exactly....Southerners just don't understand why they are the POOREST states in the Union
VanillaRhapsody
Feb 2014
#48
right there in posts 91 and 118--thugs and lazy, worthless, no-good union workers. right on cue.
niyad
Feb 2014
#152
Because the union workers in the other plants aren't going to let Americans undercut them.
Xithras
Feb 2014
#28
It is the Rethugs who didn't respect the right of the majority. They knew that the majority
pnwmom
Feb 2014
#31
Didn't Reagan do that for Poland? And then cut the union's throat here at home. nt
kelliekat44
Feb 2014
#145
Workers in Germany have representation on corporate boards, giving them a say in citing decisions.
G_j
Feb 2014
#19
Volkswagen is welcome to expand in the State of Washington any time! And we have lots of
pnwmom
Feb 2014
#34
VW is scratching thier heads at the stupidity of the Southern American Workforce
VanillaRhapsody
Feb 2014
#50
The great advantage of ignore, is I do not see the feeding of them trolls
nadinbrzezinski
Feb 2014
#81
The NLRB should overturn the vote and the Governor of Tennessee should be impeached!
B Calm
Feb 2014
#101
I expected this. Corker and others aren't negotiating with wimpy democrats.
RickFromMN
Feb 2014
#104
I am going to say YOU can't be Anti-Union...good grief its practically the ONLY thing all
VanillaRhapsody
Feb 2014
#159
Great....I have never been a member. As I stated above...I was married to someone who joined the
VanillaRhapsody
Feb 2014
#168
There are a lot of conservative ideas/talking points appearing on here lately
neverforget
Feb 2014
#326
Let The Sorry Assholes Of Chattanooga Build Tricycles for $6.50 an hour...Move On
bkanderson76
Feb 2014
#260
Go VW! Due to all the anti Union bullshit flying in this thread I wanted to say I'm a Union member
Bluenorthwest
Feb 2014
#333