Little Rock Chairman of Volkswagen announced in Germany with the Tennessee Governor and US Senator Bob Coker from Tennessee hanging on every word, that the company will add 2000 workers, spend $600 million adding a new SUV line at the Chattanooga plant, and collect $166 million from the State of Tennessee in tax and other …
Category: Labor Organizing
UAW Back in Force at VW in Chattanooga – Told You So!
Kiln Steven Greenhouse of the New York Times is pretty much the dean of what is left of the labor press in the United States. He expresses surprise at the news that the UAW is establishing a local union in the Chattanooga Volkswagen plant where they narrowly lost an election earlier in the year. It’s …
Walmart Business Model Crashing and the False Claims of Foreign Direct Investment
http://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/wadesworldjuly4.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsKiln Walmart may be the largest company in the United States in terms of gross sales, but mounting evidence indicates that its business model is collapsing. The company seems in a near state of panic as return on investment dips and quarterly returns drag consecutively lower. In …