A powerful Volkswagen labor leader says he will not actively promote UAW efforts to organize the automaker’s Chattanooga factory, according to Reuters.
Bernd Osterloh, who represents labor on the German car maker's supervisory board, said while he’s keen to see organized labor representation at the Chattanooga plant, he would not actively promote UAW efforts to broaden its membership there.
Osterloh said in Hamburg, Germany, that it was up to the employees themselves to decide which union should represent them.
The UAW, which has been facing declining membership, aims to strengthen its presence at the factories of foreign-owned car companies, including Volkswagen.
Osterloh spoke to a Hamburg business journalists' club late on Wednesday, in remarks embargoed for release today.
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I for one, DO NOT want the UAW in our plant!!!! It is not needed.I have been left without a job twice now thanks to the UAW's inability, NO, just plain refusal, to rationally negotiate with companies. Not again UAW....
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