In a move that is unusual but not unprecedented, the United Auto Workers union has sidestepped its loss in a worker vote in February and created a local union to represent workers at the Volkswagen plant in Tennessee. And whats surprising, considering decades of fierce anti-union efforts from the other foreign-transplant automakers in the South, this time the union has the tacit approval of Volkswagen itself. We have a consensus agreement with Volkswagen management to form the local and be recognized when we get a majority of the workers to join, said UAW International Secretary-Treasurer Gary Casteel of Ashland City, who has been overseeing the unions organizing drives at the Southern auto plants for the past several years — unsuccessfully, until now.
Posted on: Sat, 12 Jul 2014 18:00:01 +0000
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