I'm not sure how you can take a stance on the impact of outside influence when there are no control groups to measure against. Convincing arguments don't mean that much if you feel like there's a gun pointed at your head (job). Fear is a powerful tool.

Why would VW hold up a decision because of the UAW or the NLRB? It takes time to set up a plant and get cars on the road.

But Sen. Corker was 1,000% sure of it!

I have a difficult time believing that hypnosis can actually lower someone's IQ.

Why in the fuck aren't you deleting the anti-vaxxers?

I think I'd prefer a pocket watch or a fountain pen, but it's a nice gesture none the less.

Are you fucking high or just stupid? Don't get mad, that last comment is in the past!

I guess you don't think PTSD exists either.

Why? Are you implying that someone with a mental illness cannot be a feminist? That's pretty fucked up.

Basically, US labor law doesn't know how to deal with german style councils, so this was the professional opinion of internal and external legal experts. The only way to know for sure is to run it through the courts or change the law otherwise.

"Volkswagen is eager to have a German-style works council at the…

For a worker's council to be legal in the United States, there had to be a union vote first. Federal law isn't very flexible in this area.

VW wants the vote to pass so they could form a worker's council.

Oh cool, you're going to completely ignore the fact that Hostess had several CEOs come and go and was bought out by a firm who's only intent was to gut the company and raid the retirement fund.

Christ, you're fucking dense.

I'm sure those are the very same people who have no problem being fired without due process and being unable to challenge unsafe working conditions, too.

They were trying to form a worker's council, something the parent company actually supported.

VW wanted this to pass so they could form a worker's council.

Good lawyers require lots of money and hard evidence. That's difficult to come by if you've been fired for discrimination.

You realize that the membership has to vote to authorize a strike, right?

Why is the formation of a worker's council such a bad thing for workers? Do you believe that workers having a say in how their own factory is run is a bad thing?

Fucking christ, the sheer amount of people talking right out of their ass is simply incredible!

Uh dumbshit, voting to approve this union would have formed a German-style workers council, where labor and management join together to run the factory safer and more efficiently.