Flutterby™! : Labor relations and The South

Y'all may not have seen the recent struggle over unionization of the VW plant in Chattanooga. There was talk of trying to bring in a German style worker's council in the plant, and various parties said that the way to do this in the U.S. was for the workers to join a union. The unionization of the plant was seen as a deciding battle on unions in the South, garnering national mobilization of forces on both sides. U.S. Senator Bob Corker of Tennessee said:

"I've had conversations today and based on those am assured that should the workers vote against the UAW, Volkswagen will announce in the coming weeks that it will manufacture its new mid-size SUV here in Chattanooga," said Corker, without saying with whom he had the conversations.

The UAW reported that the majority of the workers at the VW plant had signed union cards, but then the vote failed to ratify the union.

The headline says: "Volkswagen official threatens to block expansion if workers won't unionize", which seems a little off, he's the head of the VW's worker's council, but:

“I can imagine fairly well that another VW factory in the United States, provided that one more should still be set up there, does not necessarily have to be assigned to the South again,” said Bernd Osterloh, a member of VW’s powerful supervisory board and head of VW’s works council.