Volkswagen isn't opposed to a union, but Republicans are threatening jobs

[700UW]

 

[La Li Lu Le Lo]

 
Get Obama to abide by the COTUS and get back to me.

+1

 

[southwind]

And we all know BaRack and the rest of the Liberal Demorats, are all about regulating people !

 

[Glenn Quagmire]

What practice exactly did Corker have any power to take or withhold with regard to VW?...That's how this provision would apply.You guys don't like that he took a position on something that should have been between the employer and employee -- I get that.But, it's no different than Jim Oberstar making public statements regarding employee relations at NWA, which I seem to recall taking place multiple times. Specifically, he lobbied against a PEB being declared in the ALPA strike, and was no stranger to attacking outsourcing.And it's a far cry from Chuck Schumer inserting the requirement for an ATP (1500 hours) into the FAA Reauthorization Act back in 2010, which specifically benefits the pilot unions by giving them a new lever by which to try and raise wages.If you want to complain about ethics in Congress, there is a very long list of actual violations you'd have to pursue before you even get to this one...

I agree. There are plenty to go around. This was very blatant. To do this on the eve of the vote is a strict violation of the rule.

He is not alone.

 

[xUT]

So, are we a 'republic', socialist, capitalist, or fascist? (notice did You notice I did not mention DemoRatic..)

 

[700UW]

The United States is a Republic.

 

[delldude]

The United States is a Republic.

 
No....it's a Democratic Republic.
 
Don't let the facts get in your way.

 

[700UW]

Its not democratic, its a plurality Republic.

 

[eolesen]

Wrong.

A good government actually governs, which is to perform the duties of the state as defined in its Constitution.

Most of what our government consumes its time and money with has little to do with the Constitution and everything to do with social welfare...

This is where the bulk of spending goes. Of these, national defense is the only item mandated by the Constitution:

 

[delldude]

Its not democratic, its a plurality Republic.

 
Boosheet

 

[777 fixer]

If anyone's surprised by his opinion, they're either an idiot or they haven't been paying very close attention.

He's been vocal about the plant rejecting a union since it opened. He lives in the area, and spent a lot of time and effort attracting them to the area. He doesn't want to see his home town go the way of Janesville, WI or any number of other small cities in the northern states who used to have a thriving local economy thanks to an auto manufacturing plant, and then lost it when the costs of that plant got out of control compared to production somewhere else.

 
I think the fact that the Janesville location was GM's oldest plant and produced vehicles that no one seemed to want played a bigger part in it's closure than the union.

 

[La Li Lu Le Lo]

A good government actually governs, which is to perform the duties of the state as defined in its Constitution.

Most of what our government consumes its time and money with has little to do with the Constitution and everything to do with social welfare...

Absolute truth.

 

[777 fixer]

Wrong.

A good government actually governs, which is to perform the duties of the state as defined in its Constitution.

Most of what our government consumes its time and money with has little to do with the Constitution and everything to do with social welfare...

This is where the bulk of spending goes. Of these, national defense is the only item mandated by the Constitution:

 
A lot of us here are either airline or former airline and have seen retire medical go the way of the dodo bird.  How many of us are willing to see Medicare go away?

 

[Ms Tree]

That's the funny thing about people. They tend to be very self centered. They are fine with cuts to programs that do not affect them. When it becomes personal, they change their tune.

 

[700UW]

Now this has taken a strange twist, go VW!
 
http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2014/feb/19/volkswagen-official-threatens-block-expansion-if-w/?breakingnews

 

Volkswagen’s top labor representative threatened today to try to block further investments by the German carmaker in the U.S. South if its workers there are not unionized, Reuters reported today.
 
“I can imagine fairly well that another VW factory in the United States, provided that one more should still be set up there, does not necessarily have to be assigned to the South again,” said Bernd Osterloh, a member of VW’s powerful supervisory board and head of VW’s works council.