UAW Boss Is ‘Confident’ Volkwagen Will Let Union In WITHOUT An Employee Vote

9/2/2014



Following the United Auto Workers’ stinging election defeat at trying to unionize Volkswagen’s in Chattanooga, TN earlier this year, the UAW has become more determined to unionize VW’s employees without letting a secret-ballot election take place.

via Times Free Press.

A top United Auto Workers official said Friday that he’s confident Volkswagen will recognize Chattanooga Local 42 by bargaining with it as a members’ union.

“In the U.S. system, if you’re dealing with an entity, you’ve recognized it,” said UAW Secretary-Treasurer Gary Casteel.

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Casteel, in a meeting with Times Free Press editors and reporters, said he thinks VW will bargain with Local 42 “over things that pertain to those members.”

Notwithstanding the fact that it was the same Gary Casteel who, earlier in the year, signed the “election agreement” with Volkswagen behind VW employees’ backs, it appears Mr. Casteel’s confidence may be a little shaky following the announcement that VW employees have begun organizing an independent union—without the UAW.

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