VW Union: We Will Block More Plants in U.S. South!

This is just awesome:

Volkswagen's top labor representative threatened on Wednesday to try to block further investments by the German carmaker in the southern United States if its workers there are not unionized. 

Workers at VW's factory in Chattanooga, Tennessee, last Friday voted against representation by the United Auto Workers union (UAW), rejecting efforts by VW representatives to set up a German-style works council at the plant. 

German workers enjoy considerable influence over company decisions under the legally enshrined "co-determination" principle which is anathema to many politicians in the U.S. who see organized labor as a threat to profits and job growth.

VW, let's remember, is a German company that it fully unionized in Europe. And European workers want ALL VW workers around the world to have representation. It was they, and not VW management, who were pushing for a unionized plant in Tennessee.

But Sen. Bob Corker, Governor Bill Haslam, and Grover Norquist tampered -- perhaps illegally -- with the union campaign. Now VW workers are saying "fuck you" to these clowns. I've said it before and I'll say it again: VW should relocate this plant to NY State. We will happily embrace the United Auto Workers and the high-paying jobs this would create.

 Way to shoot your state in the foot, Corker, you boob.