You can pay attention 364 days a year, then cause a crash on the 365th.

But again, and I can't stress this enough - without the potential threat of a union, and the gains that unions have already made in your industry, your employer would have absolutely no incentive whatsoever to keep you happy.

I'd be pissed off, too, if the actual company employing the workers was fine with unionization but local right-wing politicians constantly threw out threats of loss of work to influence the election.

No. Just no.

Holy crap! You work in the transportation industry and don't understand how you benefit from unions?
There's a reason methed-up truckers aren't doing 90mph in the middle of the day on their 28th hour behind the wheel, ad that reason is the Teamsters.
Your company follows labor laws strictly. Good for them. Now get it…

Because employers no longer treat their employees like serfs. Have you read any of the recent articles about how Walmart, Target, Home Depot, etc treat their wage slaves?

In other words, you worked at places that didn't hesitate to violate labor laws and fire people for attempting to organize. If this isn't a reason for having a union I don't know what is. After all, who benefits from the union? Workers. Who does it cost? Companies who would rather underpay and exploit their…

I know I've said this a few times, but it's worth saying again: I wish IG Metall would set up a US chapter. The UAW gives unions a bad name. Honda and Toyota never needed the UAW—and Ohio and Kentucky aren't even RTW, and they are just down the street from UAW closed shops.

BMW is a business. Businesses succeed by providing what their customers want. This is what lots of customers want.

That's not a real M!

Yes, just like a Camry, Land Cruiser, Range Rover ...

And what's the big difference, beside the styling that you obviously don't like ?

The vast majority of people I know who are uniformly anti union are ideologues who've been sold a bill of goods by manipulative interests. Unions don't breed anything. Lazy people exist outside of unions and within them. Use your head.

And you are predictable. Literally, Tom predicted this comment.

My political affiliation is irrelevant to the fact that a Tenn politician is threatening to reduce job growth in his home state because his voters might choose to vote union. Look, whether or not the people of Tennessee want a union is up to them, but the people should decide that is what makes a democracy. You have…

yes, but they only are interested in being the party of "low-paying jobs with no security and easily replaced workers so it is easier to control the proletariat." I've never been so glad to no longer be living in Tennessee.

So wait...I thought the Republican party was going to become the "party of jobs"? But only if those jobs mean the employees won't vote Democrat right? So Tenn politicians will halt job growth for their own constituency because people in their own state voted to to join the UAW? Way to serve your people. BTW…

If you read the linked article you'll notice that after this event he was taken to a Libyan military base and then to a US warship.

Man I sure hope so...the more they buy the more availability on the pre-owned market.

I was raging this past weekend when driving on the highway and MULTIPLE CARS had snow flying off their roofs and back into traffic.