Screw them.
Appeals process could drag out union election for years
The United Auto Workers (UAW) union
asserted
in an appeal to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) filed Friday
that Republican public officials and union opponents unfairly influenced
workers at a Tennessee Volkswagen plant that rejected the union by a
53-47 percent margin on Feb. 14.
Those groups, the UAW said in its complaint, “conducted what appears
to have been a coordinated and widely-publicized coercive campaign, in
concert with their staffs and others, to deprive VWGOA workers of their
federally-protected right, through the election, to support and select
the UAW as their exclusive representative.”
Anti-union forces were not the only political actors to get involved in the election.
President Barack Obama voiced his support for the unionization effort
and a prominent VW board member, who also represents European labor
group IG Metall, threatened to withhold investments to the plant if it
did not unionize.
Glenn Taubman, the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation
attorney who represented those employees, said that the union was
cherry-picking incidents to overthrow the desires of the majority of
workers at the plant.
