Our Tennessee members are very concerned.
Broadening the potential impact of Volkswagen’s appeal of the union election at its Chattanooga plant, three national business groups are supporting VW and worry the case’s legal standard could cripple employers.
If the election that approved a so-called micro-unit of workers at the plant is allowed to stand, it would encourage unions to repeat it in thousands of other factories, a legal brief to the National Labor Relations Board said.
Such small bargaining units could cause “endless negotiations, conflicting union demands and contract obligations, and burdensome administrative duties,” the brief said.
The groups, the National Association of Manufacturers, the National Federation of Independent Business and the Coalition for a Democratic Workplace, said they represent hundreds of thousands of companies in a variety of business sectors in all 50 states.