GOP Senators Seek To Dissuade Union Effort At VW Plant

Republican lawmakers are putting pressure on employees at a Chattanooga, Tenn. VW plant, with some saying that if the group votes to join the United Automobile Workers union the state’s GOP-controlled legislature would pull support from subsidies and other incentives that keep the plant in town. U.S. Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) has said he has been “assured” that a vote to reject unionization would earn the plant a new project. The strange thing is, the German-owned company is rallying for its workers to join UAW; the rest of the company’s plants are already unionized. Industry analysts say VW would be more likely to move the plant, and all its jobs, to Mexico if the subsidies were removed.