UAW vs. VW: It’s On!

It’s On: An unannounced, semi-stealthy UAW effort to collect signature cards from workers at Volkswagen’s Chattanooga factory comes to light. … The timing is inauspicious, TTAC notes, because sales of VW’s America-sized nonunion Passat are booming and the company just announced plans to hire 800 more workers. But the UAW has little choice but to try, because sales of VW’s America-sized nonunion Passat are booming and the company has plans to hire more workers.. … kf boilerplate insert A: It’s hard for bailed-out GM to compete using $28/hour legacy auto assemblers when VW and other non-union transplants are paying $14-19/hour and (more important) don’t have to deal with UAW-negotiated work rules. … P.S.: Could Obama intervene somehow to save the UAW? I don’t quite see how, but perhaps I lack imagination. … What might save the UAW at this point is VW’s spotty reliability rep. …