Chattanooga, TN (May 23, 2014)<\/b> \u2013 Today, Volkswagen workers voluntarily withdrew their federal lawsuit challenging the United Autoworker (UAW) union officials’ backroom organizing deal with company management during the union\u2019s highly-publicized push to unionize the workers at VW’s Chattanooga, Tennessee facility. The withdrawal was prompted by VW and UAW’s attorneys’ concessions in legal papers filed with the court that, having lost the election at the Chattanooga plant and dropped its objections to the result, the UAW cannot seek another election until sometime next year.<\/p>\n
The case was initiated in March by the workers with free legal assistance from National Right to Work Foundation staff attorneys.<\/p>\n
\u00abHaving successfully defended the result of the vote against the UAW, the workers and their Foundation staff attorneys have made the strategic decision to withdraw their federal lawsuit against the UAW and Volkswagen,\u00bb stated Mark Mix, President of the National Right to Work Foundation. \u00abFoundation staff attorneys stand ready to provide free legal assistance to VW workers if VW and the UAW enter into another organizing deal or if UAW bosses resort to unlawful tactics at the plant again.\u00bb<\/p>\n
\u00abWhen we filed this lawsuit, we were worried that the UAW union was going to be forced on us,\u00bb stated plaintiff and Volkswagen team member Mike Jarvis. \u00abNow that the vote has been certified, we want to move on, work with our fellow VW team members, and focus on building our award-winning cars.\u00bb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Chattanooga, TN (May 23, 2014)<\/b> \u2013 Today, Volkswagen workers voluntarily withdrew their federal lawsuit challenging the United Autoworker (UAW) union officials’ backroom organizing deal with company management during the union\u2019s highly-publicized push to unionize the workers at VW’s Chattanooga, Tennessee facility. The withdrawal was prompted by VW and UAW’s attorneys’ concessions in legal papers filed with the court that, having lost the election at the Chattanooga plant and dropped its objections to the result, the UAW cannot seek another election until sometime next year.<\/p>\n
The case was initiated in March by the workers with free legal assistance from National Right to Work Foundation staff attorneys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[888],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\n