When it comes to building union membership at the plant of German or Japanese carmakers, it seems that the United Auto Workers would be more successful through a German-style works council at Volkswagen and by raising awareness among Nissan employees in Tennessee than when they ask employees to vote on the issue. (Ref. 130193)
In the US, the United Auto Workers (UAW) may be about to reach one of the primary objectives they had set when Bob King was elected two years ago, namely representing workers at foreign carmakers’ plants located in the South (Mississippi, Alabama, the Carolinas…) where wages and social benefits are lower than in Detroit (see our dispatch No. 100513). Indeed, last week, Horst Neumann, VW’s board member in charge of human resources, and member of the IG Metall’s board, said the automaker...
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