UAW Appeals VW-Chattanooga Election Result to NLRB; AP Report Ignores Obama’s Intervention, Downplays German Union’s Threat
In a complete non-surprise given their officials’ reactions last week, the United Auto Workers union has filed an appeal with the National Labor Relations Board of the election they lost at Volkswagen’s Chattanooga, Tennessee plant.
As would be expected for an organization whose journalists are members of the News Media Guild, a Friday evening report by Associated Press reporters Tom Raum and Erik Schelzig emphasized the “outside intervention” of First Amendment-protected statements made by Volunteer State politicians, including Senator Bob Corker, in the runup to the balloting, while ignoring and minimizing thuggish behavior and statements by UAW supporters and sympathizers. They also saved assessments that the effort is a long-shot at best, at least on the merits, for much later paragraphs — but with President Barack Obama’s NLRB, you never know. Excerpts follow the jump (bolds are mine throughout this post):