Portside

''The nation’s leading anti-tax activist, Grover Norquist, and his group, Americans for Tax Reform, have joined the anti-union campaign, warning that a U.A.W. victory would help bring big government to Tennessee. The group’s new affiliate, the Center for Worker Freedom, has put up 13 billboards in Chattanooga, with some calling the U.A.W. “United Obama Workers” and saying, “The UAW spends millions to elect liberal politicans” — misspelling “politicians.” Another billboard says, “Detroit: Brought to you by the U.A.W.,” and shows a photo of a Packard plant that was shuttered 55 years ago.'

As workers at the Volkswagen plant in

Chattanooga, Tenn., prepare to vote

this week on whether to join the

United Automobile Workers, facing

unusual pressure from the state’s

Republican legislators to reject the

union.