Tennessee's VW workers voted down a right to organize. The UAW needs to file a complaint with the NLR Board for the interference and blatant lies of government officials.
It only goes to prove the people within Red States can't discern their own best interests anymore.
The company was on the side of organization as it part of their business model. The climate for organizing and having workers learn the benefits of being organized was perfect. How can something so perfect go so awry? None of it makes sense.
...The organizing vote also seems to have brought out the worst in some Republican state politicians, who have threatened future financial help for VW projects if the United Auto Workers wins the election....
Blatant coercion.
I feel very bad for those folks. They are good decent people, but, they aren't free. They are locked into a life without opportunity. It is very sad.
The UAW isn't just up against corrupt politicians, it is up against the NRA. The union is going to take their guns and so will the company. The NRA is in the middle of this thing somewhere.
A Volkswagen official spoke (click here) to lawmakers this afternoon
opposing legislation that would allow employees to keep guns in their
cars on company property.
"We strongly urge the community to reject the proposed bill," Reid Albert, general manager of security, fire and general service for Volkswagen Chattanooga, said. "VW Chattanooga is very concerned with the current legislation, which would take away our right to control our property and would interfere with our ability to take the necessary actions to ensure the safety of all of our employees."
At the core of the debate about the legislation are property and gun rights and whether business leaders should be able to control what an employee keeps in his or her vehicle if it is on company property....
Retribution against a company that believes their property and their employees are safer without weapons. Rightwingers don't like European cultures. Currently, VW can fire any employee they feel is a threat to the well being of their company. That is the way of the Red States. Employees don't have rights, companies do. If VW posts their property and makes it clear they won't tolerate guns they can fire those that oppose those company policies. The workers have protections otherwise. The company has their own security I am sure. Those security personnel have the right to work in a gun free environment.
VW has the right to set policy. They have a right to safe and sane working conditions without the coercion of government. The law ALLOWS guns in the workplace, that doesn't mean it enforces the demand the employees carry them. If the company's policy is to remain as a gun free zone, the employees will have to leave their weapons off property.
The law provides an additional right to gun owners, but, no different than restaurants that post 'No Guns Allowed,' VW can post their property and expect their employees to respect that policy.
It is good of VW to seek a plant in the USA, the least any government can do is honor the wishes of an auto manufacturer and their policies. Unfortunately, the automakers are now a battle ground with rightwing extremists. I am sorry they aren't being respected in the USA as they expected to be.
It only goes to prove the people within Red States can't discern their own best interests anymore.
The company was on the side of organization as it part of their business model. The climate for organizing and having workers learn the benefits of being organized was perfect. How can something so perfect go so awry? None of it makes sense.
...The organizing vote also seems to have brought out the worst in some Republican state politicians, who have threatened future financial help for VW projects if the United Auto Workers wins the election....
Blatant coercion.
I feel very bad for those folks. They are good decent people, but, they aren't free. They are locked into a life without opportunity. It is very sad.
The UAW isn't just up against corrupt politicians, it is up against the NRA. The union is going to take their guns and so will the company. The NRA is in the middle of this thing somewhere.
"We strongly urge the community to reject the proposed bill," Reid Albert, general manager of security, fire and general service for Volkswagen Chattanooga, said. "VW Chattanooga is very concerned with the current legislation, which would take away our right to control our property and would interfere with our ability to take the necessary actions to ensure the safety of all of our employees."
At the core of the debate about the legislation are property and gun rights and whether business leaders should be able to control what an employee keeps in his or her vehicle if it is on company property....
Retribution against a company that believes their property and their employees are safer without weapons. Rightwingers don't like European cultures. Currently, VW can fire any employee they feel is a threat to the well being of their company. That is the way of the Red States. Employees don't have rights, companies do. If VW posts their property and makes it clear they won't tolerate guns they can fire those that oppose those company policies. The workers have protections otherwise. The company has their own security I am sure. Those security personnel have the right to work in a gun free environment.
VW has the right to set policy. They have a right to safe and sane working conditions without the coercion of government. The law ALLOWS guns in the workplace, that doesn't mean it enforces the demand the employees carry them. If the company's policy is to remain as a gun free zone, the employees will have to leave their weapons off property.
The law provides an additional right to gun owners, but, no different than restaurants that post 'No Guns Allowed,' VW can post their property and expect their employees to respect that policy.
It is good of VW to seek a plant in the USA, the least any government can do is honor the wishes of an auto manufacturer and their policies. Unfortunately, the automakers are now a battle ground with rightwing extremists. I am sorry they aren't being respected in the USA as they expected to be.
