It IS 2024 and Elected Governor’s are telling their citizen to NOT join a Union?
FOR REAL?
The fight against unions has cut back their membership in America by a estimated 10%…..
The Right to organise workers has been on going for more than 100 years….
And apparently isn’t over….
President Biden has supported Labor….
Donald Trump wanted to get rid of Federal unions….
“The reality is companies have choices when it comes to where to invest and bring jobs and opportunity,” the governors of Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina and Texas wrote. “Unionization would certainly put our states’ jobs in jeopardy.”
The remarkable intervention follows signs of optimism among pro-union workers at the VW plant, who in recent days have expressed hope that the vote will pass. It begins Wednesday and lasts three days, with results expected late Friday….
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An economist who has closely studied unionization in the South called the statement “unprecedented and shocking” and said it discouraged workers from exercising their legal right to organize.
“It implies that the governors fear that the UAW will prevail in the upcoming union recognition election and that UAW success could upend their economic models built on relatively low pay and minimal worker voice,” Stephen Silvia, a professor at American University, said by email.
Tennessee Republicans have helped thwart two UAW attempts to unionize the VW factory, in 2014 and 2019, and have ramped up their opposition in recent weeks with news conferences and public statements. During a visit to Chattanooga this month, Gov. Bill Lee said joining the union would be “a big mistake.”…
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Some VW workers told The Washington Post this month that they wished politicians would stay out of the matter and leave it up to employees.
Democratic politicians have voiced support for the UAW. Democratic state senators in Tennessee on Tuesday criticized the Republican governors on social media. “Autoworkers in the South are ready to make history this week. #StandUp, Chattanooga!” Sen. London Lamar posted.
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear, whose state faces a UAW organizing effort at a Toyota factory in Georgetown, said on social media last week that unions have raised workers’ standard of living and that he was “proud to stand shoulder-to-shoulder” with the UAW….