Southerners are the last of the truly independent Americans. That is why the United Auto Workers (UAW) didn’t stand a chance trying to sell their promises to the Volkswagen workers in Chattanooga. Workers at the plant saw through the corrupt and antiquated union mindset and voted against the formation of a union at their plant.
Tennessee is called the Volunteer State because they know they cannot make you live there. Instead, the state does the things that make people want to live there, including not imposing a state income tax.
As a result, manufacturing has grown, including a Nissan plant and a new Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga. Tennessee wants to remain Tennessee, not become Detroit. It’s why manufacturing moves to the South.
Sen, Bob Corker, a rising star, has done a great job of explaining why a strong right-to-work state is important for long-term economic growth. If we study recent history, we know unions leave carnage in their wake.
The mindset of crony capitalists and the unions is to price their products (in the case of unions, it is labor) well above the market rate using coercive force. Businesses cannot pay these rates forever and survive in a global economy.