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Union vote has nothing to do with adding vehicle line: Volkswagen

UAW should have no say in any of this.

Since when has UAW invested in a business, and took the risks associated? -- No No, UAW are the rats and cockroaches that follow after the business has been built looking for anything they can get their hands on..

I want UAW abolished..

Seems to me the company wants to work with the unions under a model used in a Germany. The only thing that is acting like a cockroach is Norquist and his ilk.
 
UAW, are a bunch of mobster ****s that use gangster tactics, which they learned considering the close ties they had with the Italian/Sicilian mafia....

As a Sicilian myself it makes me sick how this thuggery has become status quo.

Every state should be a right to work state, and if unions can make their organizations more attractive to potential employees than so be it, but that's not how unions handle their business - you either join their union thug gang or get buried.

It makes me sick to know that my ancestors were involved in promoting this criminal nonsense.
Of course it bothers you, but the corruption of CEOs and the 1%-10% doesn't bother you at all, right? Please... corruption is an issue at all levels of business and government and most of it is then legalized after it's cost the 90% their jobs, their incomes, and their livelihooods.

We all know that whether it's because you part of the 10% or whether it's because you're one of the ignorant one's who still think opportunities are available for everyone to become part of the 10%, you favor the lower classes having an unreasonable level of daily and financial struggle for the benefit of the few at the top. I think we all know that about you and have for quite a while.
 
Bingo! You hit the lotto. I found this of interest.

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What’s fascinating about the VW vote is that the company is quite open to a German style works council, which would be organized under the auspices of the UAW. Many of the workers are in favor of it, too. But local politicians like Senators Corker and Watson, as well as conservative activists from Grover Norquist to the Koch brothers, are putting up a fight. They see the VW battle as a key victory in the battle to unionize the South. While Southern states have low union penetration, the South is also where the action is, and organizers like the UAW’s Region 8 director Gary Casteel, who’s in charge of Southern unionizing, have been making good progress there.

Read more: VW, Grover Norquist, and the Future of American Unions | TIME.com VW, Grover Norquist, and the Future of American Unions | TIME.com

Unions are a criminal organization cloaked in "legitimate business."

The purpose of the unions are to extort as much as possible while the big heads line their pockets and make sizable campaign contributions to any politician that will offer "their guys" a contract, weather a job needs to be done or not.

Unions are dirty, corrupt, bad for business and bad for the economy.
 
I have no problem with unionization as long as it isn't a requirement to work there. Let the workers vote and either go with it or not. But those who do not want to join, they shouldn't have to. It should be an individual worker choice.

Your opinions about unions has no bearing on this situation, but thanks for sharing.
The company wants a relationship with the American union much like how they have relationships with unions in Germany.
 
Unions are a criminal organization cloaked in "legitimate business."

The purpose of the unions are to extort as much as possible while the big heads line their pockets and make sizable campaign contributions to any politician that will offer "their guys" a contract, weather a job needs to be done or not.

Unions are dirty, corrupt, bad for business and bad for the economy.

You're hate noted.
 
Of course it bothers you, but the corruption of CEOs and the 1%-10% doesn't bother you at all, right? Please... corruption is an issue at all levels of business and government and most of it is then legalized after it's cost the 90% their jobs, their incomes, and their livelihooods.

We all know that whether it's because you part of the 10% or whether it's because you're one of the ignorant one's who still think opportunities are available for everyone to become part of the 10%, you favor the lower classes having an unreasonable level of daily and financial struggle for the benefit of the few at the top. I think we all know that about you and have for quite a while.

I don't give a **** what the CEO makes, whatever he makes is in his contract...

Remember union employes get their paychecks from these CEO's who have gone to business school and worked their way up the corporate ladder to get into the position they're at. The only problem here is that a CEO can do a gunt union workers job but a grunt union worker cant do a CEO's job.

But that's all that matter to you...... The difference in salaries..... Well guess what? you want to make the big bucks? you got to earn those big bucks and that takes a lot of schooling, time, effort, asskissing and patience - virtues almost NO union member has or has the tolerance for.
 
I don't give a **** what the CEO makes, whatever he makes is in his contract...

Remember union employes get their paychecks from these CEO's who have gone to business school and worked their way up the corporate ladder to get into the position they're at. The only problem here is that a CEO can do a gunt union workers job but a grunt union worker cant do a CEO's job.

But that's all that matter to you...... The difference in salaries..... Well guess what? you want to make the big bucks? you got to earn those big bucks and that takes a lot of schooling, time, effort, asskissing and patience - virtues almost NO union member has or has the tolerance for.

Um, the CEO is not anti union. Norquist and his ilk are the haters. The CEO is interested in duplicating German unions.
 
I don't give a **** what the CEO makes, whatever he makes is in his contract...

Remember union employes get their paychecks from these CEO's who have gone to business school and worked their way up the corporate ladder to get into the position they're at. The only problem here is that a CEO can do a gunt union workers job but a grunt union worker cant do a CEO's job.

But that's all that matter to you...... The difference in salaries..... Well guess what? you want to make the big bucks? you got to earn those big bucks and that takes a lot of schooling, time, effort, asskissing and patience - virtues almost NO union member has or has the tolerance for.
You behave as though those CEOs could do without their employees. Lets remember that all that schooling doesn't mean they can actually build or create or sell or market those ideas they've made businesses out of. You CEO worshippers are really ignorant about what CEOs can and cannot do and how well their companies would do without people willing to work.
 
Your opinions about unions has no bearing on this situation, but thanks for sharing.
The company wants a relationship with the American union much like how they have relationships with unions in Germany.

The relationship doesn't matter to me. That should be between the workers and the company, not politicians. But where I step into the fray would be if union membership becomes mandatory to work there. If the relationship works for the better, then people/workers would want to become members. If not, it should be their choice.
 
Your opinions about unions has no bearing on this situation, but thanks for sharing.
The company wants a relationship with the American union much like how they have relationships with unions in Germany.
they do, but the UAW wants more then this.
Be nice to unionize without the UAW -don't know if that is possible.
 
You behave as though those CEOs could do without their employees. Lets remember that all that schooling doesn't mean they can actually build or create or sell or market those ideas they've made businesses out of. You CEO worshippers are really ignorant about what CEOs can and cannot do and how well their companies would do without people willing to work.

This CEO is from a different culture and mindset.
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A works council has specific rights and responsibilities similar to the German "Betriebsrat." Under the model, a works council represents employees on a wide range of internal matters at the plant, while their union represents them on terms and conditions such as hours, pay and benefits.

The company said Chattanooga is the only major Volkswagen assembly facility without a union and that a works council at the Chattanooga plant would get a seat at the VW Global Group Works Council.. Tenn. VW workers to vote on German-style union
 
This CEO is from a different culture and mindset.
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A works council has specific rights and responsibilities similar to the German "Betriebsrat." Under the model, a works council represents employees on a wide range of internal matters at the plant, while their union represents them on terms and conditions such as hours, pay and benefits.

The company said Chattanooga is the only major Volkswagen assembly facility without a union and that a works council at the Chattanooga plant would get a seat at the VW Global Group Works Council.. Tenn. VW workers to vote on German-style union
I know, I wasn't speaking of this one CEO, clearly, and have pointed out as you have many times. I should find a way to better mention those CEOs that are American-ized.
 
I have no problem with unionization as long as it isn't a requirement to work there. Let the workers vote and either go with it or not. But those who do not want to join, they shouldn't have to. It should be an individual worker choice.

As the state is RTW, they could vote to form a union and have nobody join.
 
Um, the CEO is not anti union. Norquist and his ilk are the haters. The CEO is interested in duplicating German unions.

What other choice does he have to break into the market - which is precisely my point! - No union - no business.

I say **** that - no unions.
 
What other choice does he have to break into the market - which is precisely my point! - No union - no business.

I say **** that - no unions.

German companies are not as adverse to unions because unions are deeply embedded in their culture. They have even learned to be partners. Workers are not perceived as low lifes.
 
The relationship doesn't matter to me. That should be between the workers and the company, not politicians. But where I step into the fray would be if union membership becomes mandatory to work there. If the relationship works for the better, then people/workers would want to become members. If not, it should be their choice.

Oh, you talking about right to work law which is either law in TN or not. What does thus have to do with OP?
 
You behave as though those CEOs could do without their employees. Lets remember that all that schooling doesn't mean they can actually build or create or sell or market those ideas they've made businesses out of. You CEO worshippers are really ignorant about what CEOs can and cannot do and how well their companies would do without people willing to work.

And every company or corporation is NOT unionized.... Unions have just found a way to invade certain industries and take them over like Education, the auto industry, some parts of manufacturing just to name a few..

And they're all greedy psychopaths that are all under the delusion that the jobs they do are unique to themselves and no one else can do them at a lesser wage and be happy doing it..... Of course everytime these clowns don't get their mandatory 10% wage hike every year and free pizzia on Friday they throw a **** fit and go on strike and pretend they're victims of oppression.

Their greedy psychological games don't impress me at all.
 
And every company or corporation is NOT unionized.... Unions have just found a way to invade certain industries and take them over like Education, the auto industry, some parts of manufacturing just to name a few..

And they're all greedy psychopaths that are all under the delusion that the jobs they do are unique to themselves and no one else can do them at a lesser wage and be happy doing it..... Of course everytime these clowns don't get their mandatory 10% wage hike every year and free pizzia on Friday they throw a **** fit and go on strike and pretend they're victims of oppression.

Their greedy psychological games don't impress me at all.

With your presentations here, you are very ironic and twisted to suggest that unions have a greedy psychological persona while apparently not seeing the one in the mirror.
 
German companies are not as adverse to unions because unions are deeply embedded in their culture. They have even learned to be partners. Workers are not perceived as low lifes.

That's because Germans have accepted it - especially after the whole "wall thing" - Germans are quasi-communists, and that is how they had to be and act for that wall to fall.

This has more to do with history than Unions.
 
That's because Germans have accepted it - especially after the whole "wall thing" - Germans are quasi-communists, and that is how they had to be and act for that wall to fall.

This has more to do with history than Unions.

Um, it has more to do with German workers feeling they too deserve a piece of the pie.
 
With your presentations here, you are very ironic and twisted to suggest that unions have a greedy psychological persona while apparently not seeing the one in the mirror.

No the real irony here is the simple fact that most union workers don't have a damn clue as to how a business or corporation works.

Yeah you're right - I don't need a union - because I do good work and work hard - and I don't need protection from some union delegate to make excuses for me.... In short I'm the harder and more intelligent worker, and guys like me need no representatives to make any excuses for our work because there arn't any excuses to be made.

That's why so many people are opposed to unions and support right to work legislation - because they know they're the best workers and don't need to pay some bitch union dues just to keep a job - which amounts to extortion.
 
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