Yep. VW is unionized, in Tennessee. This is. . . exceedingly good news. And an "idea, whose time has come. . . ." AGAIN.
The lesson? Multinational companies may only treat workers as disposable for so long. Then, the tide changes. It has changed tonight, in America -- not just for this year, and this plant -- but for workers, everywhere, and perhaps for decades yet to come. From NPR, then -- a bit, from earlier tonight:
. . .Some 4,300 hourly workers were eligible to vote this week. The union needs a simple majority of votes cast to win the election. Just about 20 minutes into the counting, the UAW had received 73% of the first 1,000 votes. . . .
All eyes are on the vote, especially because previous attempts by the UAW to unionize the same Chattanooga plant in 2014 and 2019 ended in defeat. Similar efforts at several other auto manufacturing plants in the South have also failed over the years. . . .
[And from the Detroit Free Press:] “By having Ford, GM and Stellantis, after the ratification of the new contracts, immediately go to their stockholders and say, ‘It’s no big deal, we can still be very profitable,’ meant Chattanooga workers didn’t have to listen to the Republican governors who said that a union will shut them down," Wheaton said. "Ford, GM and Stellantis showed that (a rich contract) does not dramatically damage their bottom line and they can still afford to give stock buybacks, give their CEOs big pay checks, and now the workers can afford to buy groceries. . . .”
Onward, grinning ear to ear. Be excellent to one another!
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