One could easily be
forgiven for getting the impression that Volkswagen Motors had advocated that a
People’s Democratic Soviet Socialist Workers’ Republic of Chattanooga under
which the Christian religion is outlawed.
You’d think the politicians
and other high holy men of the State of Tennessee would show some grace and
Southern hospitality to one of Tennessee’s biggest employers and best guests by
letting a corporation based in one of the very few countries in the world whose
economy isn’t totally in the crapper to run its own business the way it sees
fit. But no, apparently that’s asking
too much. As if it weren’t enough to be
hassled by Haslam and exhorted against by ex-editors with an axe to grind, now
VW is faced with meddling in its affairs by the Koch brothers’ carpet-bagging
National Right to Work Committee.
“Right to Work” is a phrase
that belongs with the Ministry of Truth’s “War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery,
Ignorance is Strength” and the oxymoron Military Intelligence. Coined by French socialist Louis Blanc in the
mid-19th century in a time of rising unemployment similar to the
current situation, “right to work” is now in 21st century America an
anti-labor slogan derived from a post-World War II Orwellian twist on the
original. The discredited “evil empire”
which brought us trickle-down economics and the Great Depression perverted
Blanc’s slogan in their campaign to tear down the advances in favor of labor
under the Wagner Act of 1934.
Make no mistake, these are
the same sort of people who believe the accused in criminal cases do not
deserve an adequate legal defense if accused of a crime either, no matter how
weak the evidence or how dire the results if convicted, not if they can’t
afford to pay for it.
As explained previously by
others, this is not a hostile action by the UAW in the face of strenuous
opposition by Volkswagen Motors. The UAW
has been invited by VW into talks about
representing VW’s labor force on its European-style workers’ council, such
as VW has in every single other facility it has on planet Earth. So all of those throwing stones and rotten
eggs at the prospect of UAW opening shop at Enterprise South may be thinking
their aim is at the object of their contempt but their missiles are hitting
elsewhere.
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