“I hope that the workers of Tennessee take a very, very careful look at this and what it means for their liberty and freedoms at the end of the day,” Hagerty told HuffPost last week before a vote on Capitol Hill.Hagerty walked back off the Senate floor a few minutes later and beckoned to HuffPost for another crack at the question about his position for this week’s union election, as if to underscore his point.
Volkswagen employees rejected the UAW twice before, but this time the union is riding high following its successful strike last year that resulted in significant raises at Ford, General Motors and Jeep parent company Stellantis.There also appears to be less political pressure to reject the union coming from Tennessee Republicans this time. During a 2014 union campaign, former Sen.
Volkswagen workers interviewed by HuffPost last week said there’s less fear the plant could lose production lines or economic subsidies by organizing now. The facility has been around for well over a decade at this point and has seen substantial investments from both the company and the state. Volkswagen said it poured $800 million into electrifying the plant, which produces the ID.4 electric SUV.
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