The United Auto Workers' Attempts to Unionize Volkswagen Chattanooga
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4573281 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stephen J Silvia (0000-0002-0141-3611, Stephen J. Silvia is a Professor in the School of International Service, American University., corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 71 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 600-624 |
| Publication date | 2018-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Industrial and Labor Relations Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0019-7939 • E-ISSN: 2162-271X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0019793917723620 |
| OpenAlex | W2745043502 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 5 |
The author examines attempts by the United Auto Workers (UAW) to unionize the Volkswagen (VW) plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee. These efforts were a pivotal test of labor's ability to organize in the South. The UAW failed to organize the entire plant, despite an amenable employer, because of heavy intervention by external actors, the union's failure to develop community support, and a paragraph in the pre-election agreement that promised wage restraint. VW management's fear of losing state subsidies and their desire to not alienate the local business and political establishment took the card-check procedure for recognition off the table. VW management's adoption of an accommodating position toward unionization for the entire plant, but resistance to it for the small skilled-mechanics unit, suggests that the company was willing to accept unionization only as a means to the end of creating a works council rather than out of a commitment to collective bargaining as a practice
Business · Collective bargaining · Economics · Intervention (counseling) · Labour economics · Paragraph · Political science · Politics · Resistance (ecology) · Subsidy · Test (biology) · Wage · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Psychology · Public Administration
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| Unique citing works | 12 |
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| Citations per year | 1,71 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2025 (7) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |