Классовое противостояние

[borislvin]

Hourly workers in Chattanooga, Tennessee narrowly voted to reject the UAW’s bid to unionize their Volkswagen plant. The union organizing drive was backed by the UAW, VW’s German union, IG Metal, and the VW board of directors.

http://paulgregorysblog.blogspot.com/2014/02/a-stunning-defeat-with-broad.html

Comments

[yankel.livejournal.com]

Забавно, что совет директоров на стороне профсоюза

[bbb.livejournal.com]

Об что и речь

[yankel.livejournal.com]

Есть у меня некоторые подозрения, что некоторым современным советам директоров, пильщики профсоюзные - лучшие друзья.
Вон, в Детройте они все дружно доработали до банкротства

[trurle.livejournal.com]

Структура владения Фольксвагена весьма и весьма причудлива.

[davnym-davno.livejournal.com]

Пусть они хором споют " Chattanooga Choo Choo" и помирятся.

[nagunak.livejournal.com]

Ну теперь VW поймет что с рабочими в США может делать ЧТО УГОДНО.

[ashamrin.livejournal.com]

На Hacker News интересный комментарий по этому поводу:

This has been a knock-down drag-out fight and a lot of fun to watch. VW hates the UAW, but they can't say as much because being seen as anti-union would hurt their image back in Germany. Thanks to NRLB rules, VW can't make any statements about rewarding the workers for not unionizing, but that hasn't stopped Senator Corker from saying he heard it on good authority that VW would bring production of a second car to the Chattanooga plant if the workers rejected the UAW. That was a dirty/brilliant move on Corker's part, which both advanced his anti-union agenda and set the expectation that VW will add a second production line to its factory, which VW has been considering since the Passat hasn't been selling as well as they initially planned.

Framing the unionization effort as a "works council" was ingenious marketing on UAW's part, but apparently wasn't enough to persuade the Tennessee good old boys to take the Rust Belt gambit. If you've ever heard stories about how GM & Co. run their factories you'll be amazed anything gets built at all.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7243007

Если верить комментарию, то VW негласно был всё-таки против. А вот про заявление Senator Corker, в котором он сообщил про обещание расширить производство в случае отказа от профсоюза:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/13/us-autos-vw-tennessee-corker-idUSBREA1C1XF20140213

[cema.livejournal.com]

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