Citing "an imminent threat that plaintiffs and their co-workers will become exclusively represented by the UAW against their will,” workers at the Volkswagen plant in Tennessee who recently voted down a proposal for the UAW to represent them, are asking a judge to prevent the company from aiding the union if a revote is ordered by the NLRB. Washington Free Beacon: The federal lawsuit comes just a day after the NLRB granted workers the right to intervene in the appeals process over objections from the company and the union, which had attempted to shut workers out of the process. VW has pushed workers to form a works council in the right-to-work state with company board members even threatening to withdraw investments in the factory if it does not unionize. “I can imagine fairly well that another VW factory in the United States, provided that one more should still be set up there, does not necessarily have to be assigned to the South again,” Bernd...(Read Full Post)