Tuesday, February 18, 2014

This will bug the unions

Some interesting insights into the UAW's loss at the Tennessee Volkswagen plant.
Because most workers weren’t particularly looking for a union to address problems they didn’t believe they had with the company in the first place — because VW was drafted into a cooperative relationship by the UAW, rather than seen as an galvanizing adversary — they didn’t think that the (literally) foreign concept of works council presented much of value proposition for them that would be worth one to two percent of their income in dues payments. As the very shrewd labor historian Erik Loomis wrote, in a sharp campaign post-mortem, “the usual union victory results from dissatisfied workers organizing with demands. That really wasn’t the case here.”
The workers didn't like the UAW model.
Time to go back to the drawing board.
Redesign worked for the Bug.

1 comment:

RightsideVA said...

Behold the power of Unions: http://washingtonexaminer.com/article/2544025