USA TODAY: …Before workers voted, Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., urged workers to reject the union and suggested that Volkswagen would not build a new SUV in Chattanooga if workers voted for the UAW. Volkswagen management said the union vote would not affect a decision on where to build the SUV.
Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam said accepting the UAW would discourage other companies from moving into the state. The leader of the state senate threatened to withhold tax incentives to support new investment at a UAW-affiliated Volkswagen…
“It’s an outrage that politically motivated third parties threatened the economic future of this facility and the opportunity for workers to create a successful operating model that that would grow jobs in Tennessee,” UAW President Bob King said in a statement. “It is extraordinary interference in the private decision of workers to have a U.S. senator, a governor and leaders of the state legislature threaten the company with the denial of economic incentives and workers with a loss of product.” … (more)
