Tennessee is a Red State.
Let’s just be honest, the people of Tennessee like their markets free and their government small and off their back.
The United Auto Workers union wants to come into our Volks-wagen plant in Chattanooga. They want to form a union and organize the workers there. Nobody’s business but the plant workers, right? Wrong. The UAW would be bad for our freedom, and bad for our economy.
The UAW kills jobs. It’s just a fact. Have you seen Detroit lately? The UAW has been in control of Detroit’s main industry since the 1940s. It has bankrupted entire car companies (remember General Motors?), nearly bankrupted the entire American auto industry, and therefore led to the loss of thousands of jobs.
People need to understand why Volks-wagen, Nissan and other auto makers have set up plants throughout the Southern right-to-work states: It’s because unions are less powerful here and the UAW was less of a threat to their businesses – or so they thought.