UAW vs. Auto Workers

Commentary If you trusted only what you’ve been reading in the news lately, you would imagine that Big Labor in America has lifted off into a resurgence of historic proportions. The United Auto Workers (UAW), with a long history of friendliness toward socialism, struck its way to a lavish deal with the Big Three automakers, and in the wake of the contracts, the UAW motto seems to be: “Today Detroit, tomorrow the right-to-work workforce.” In Tennessee, which like the rest of the South has a right-to-work law protecting employees from being forced to join a union or pay the equivalent of union dues, some 1,000-plus employees of Volkswagen’s Chattanooga factory signed to put in motion a balloting of workers on unionization by the UAW, with the union’s eye on organizing at over a dozen foreign-owned auto manufacturing factories within right-to-work states. The filing of such union election petitions is up substantially in recent years, possibly a reaction to the devastation the lockdowns inflicted on the economy. Plus Big Labor boasts successful unionizing efforts of Amazon and Starbucks employees last year....