# VW may reconsider expanding in the south due to anti-union push **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 19, 2014, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vw-may-reconsider-expanding-in-the-south-due-to-anti-union-push/681738 "2014-02-19T22:33:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2014, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vw-may-reconsider-expanding-in-the-south-due-to-anti-union-push/681738/21 "2014-02-20T18:35:23Z")
> [@Bricker](#): > > Corker is not, so far as I can tell, actually doing anything other than speaking his views. The claim that someone in a clear position to create problems is simply musing abstractly (“Nice factory ya got here…”) is disingenuous even by your standards. ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2014, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vw-may-reconsider-expanding-in-the-south-due-to-anti-union-push/681738/22 "2014-02-20T19:02:42Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > I can’t explain how **Kimstu** feels that this represents and example of the nanny state in action, but I can take exception to the way you characterized Sen. Corker’s remarks. They most decidedly were NOT his opinion. If you’re going to cling to that, perhaps you’d be good enough to offer some examples of what he said and explain how they are his opinions. Here, let’s start with this one: > > > [@](#): > > > > 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. Yes? That’s absolutely his opinion. He’s offering his prediction, based on his claimed conversations with a specific source he does not name, that if the UAW is rejected, VW will bring their new SUV to Chattanooga. He certainly has no authority as a senator to force them to uphold that bargain, if even they made it. Undoubtedly he has more opportunity to be heard than Joe Schmoe on the street, but it’s equally obvious there is no senatorial authority behind what he’s saying – how could there be? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2014, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vw-may-reconsider-expanding-in-the-south-due-to-anti-union-push/681738/23 "2014-02-20T19:09:01Z")
> [@usedtobe](#): > > “If I wanted your opinion, Id ask for it!” ‘If I wanted your opinion, I’d give it to you!’ 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2014, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vw-may-reconsider-expanding-in-the-south-due-to-anti-union-push/681738/24 "2014-02-20T19:10:31Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > The claim that someone in a clear position to create problems is simply musing abstractly (“Nice factory ya got here…”) is disingenuous even by your standards. What kinds of problems are you picturing? I mean, I guess it’s possible that Senator Corker would make up some dire scenario that had absolutely no chance of actually happening. Maybe he could say something like, “[I consider it a matter of established fact](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=7908663&postcount=37) that VW will close its plant here if the UAW gets voted in.” But that would be really irresponsible. I can’t imagine anyone arguing in good faith doing that. Can you? ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2014, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vw-may-reconsider-expanding-in-the-south-due-to-anti-union-push/681738/25 "2014-02-20T19:33:41Z")
> [@Wesley\_Clark](#): > > Republicans who claimed a union would eliminate jobs. Rather than the company that’s actually making the decision not to expand? I thought from the other thread that conditioning negative consequences on the outcome of the vote was essentially blackmail. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vw-may-reconsider-expanding-in-the-south-due-to-anti-union-push/681738.md?page=1)