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• How The UAW Lost Chattanooga - Douglas Williams and Cato Uticensis in South Lawn
• After Historic UAW Defeat at Tennessee Volkswagen Plant, Theories Abound - Mike Elk in Working In These Times
• So the UAW Lost, What Can Be Done? Some History Lessons - Rosemary Feurer in Labor Online (Labor and Working-Class History Association)
• Tennessee Republicans are Anti-Business and Anti-Union - Stephen Crockett in Mid-Atlantic States Labor
• A Lesson From Chattanooga - Richard Wolff in Moyers & Company

How The UAW Lost Chattanooga

by Douglas Williams and Cato Uticensis

February 17, 2014
The South Lawn

Again, this was a monumental loss for the labor movement in the South. As you read the excellent coverage and analysis from this story, five failures in this campaign emerge. They should be instructive for the UAW and any other union that seeks to organize in the South going forward
 

After Historic UAW Defeat at Tennessee Volkswagen Plant, Theories Abound

By Mike Elk

February 15, 2014
Working In These Times

In These Times’ interviews with both pro-union and anti-union workers—as well as low-level Volkswagen supervisors, top UAW officials and community activists—point to a confluence of factors, including outside interference by GOP politicians and unsanctioned anti-union activity by low-level supervisors. Some questioned, too, whether missteps by the UAW and concerns about its prior bargaining agreements played a role.

So the UAW Lost, What Can Be Done? Some History Lessons

By Rosemary Feurer

February 16, 2014
Labor Online (Labor and Working-Class History Association)

I’ll put 3 points out that are based on my knowledge of UAW from Jerry Tucker and all those who have struggled to make the UAW a fighting union in recent years.

Tennessee Republicans are Anti-Business and Anti-Union

by Stephen Crockett (Editor of Mid-Atlantic Labor.com)

February 17, 2014
Mid-Atlantic States Labor

Outside groups financed by extremist Right Wing billionaires put up emotionally charged smear campaign billboards blaming the United Auto Workers (UAW) for the decline of the automobile industry in Detroit. These are false charges.

A Lesson From Chattanooga

by Richard Wolff

February 17, 2014
Moyers & Company

Many factors led to the United Auto Workers’ (UAW’s) loss in the recent union election at the Volkswagen (VW) factory in Tennessee. Likewise many lessons can be learned. One especially important lesson concerns how one factor – “outside influence” – works so one-sidedly in the United States.