amen brother.

No one should have to suffer ever. Those who think it's okay for others to suffer, never had to suffer.

@@Arisaem nobody is suffering. Unions make everything more expensive. That is what will happen for Volkswagen and it will destroy their market. Just like unions always do. As if we don’t have enough $90,000 cars.

@@doggodoggo3000 you are a paid contributor. You have 22 subscribers and no content? Those are your robot accounts you use to like your own comments and make it look like you have support.

I guess inflation is being caused by unions and not by greedy CEO s and their share holders. 😂​@@jarrettesselman8144

You and the likes on your comment are fake

People don't realize the weekend off didn't exist until union pressure made it a reality. Of course, the business class have de facto found ways around it.

@@jarrettesselman8144 Здравия желаю Comrade.

lol. You are censoring me. That’s how I win.

@@jarrettesselman8144 The one upvote tells all of us who you work for

All of these comments are fake

@@jarrettesselman8144 I think that you just can't believe in a reality you disagree with.

@@PolferiferusII you know, I told the truth

cant stop now

The majority report has done interviews with union organizers. It can give you an idea of what to expect. Especially his interview with the Starbucks organizer in Buffalo. Im pretty sure she really explainer her process with gradually bringing in people she trusted before they had enough employees and went to their employers. Good luck.

Mine too.

I wouldn't bad mouth my union if they'd done anything to actually protect us or get us money or, I don't know, fight vax mandates. Unions are shit.

The UAW destroyed the American auto industry and put entire cities into poverty. “Union worker” is an oxymoron.

The wealthy-class billionaires & millionaires will NEVER willingly give up their addictions (and neither will most working-class westerners for that matter). Good luck getting the RW-extremist Repubs and moderate-RW Dems out of the way; 99% of them are millionaires funded by billionaires. BOTH major US political-parties(and a few smaller ones) are bought, owned, bribed, and controlled by wealthy-class-RWers. I agree with your sentiment, but "telling" isn't going to get them to give up their addictions to wealth and the power it affords them..

Mine too...Amen!!!

Not really fair of you to put thoughts in this person's head, but I get your intent.

i know you want to spread the good message by directly quoting hasan as if it was yourself but the other commenter is very correct in calling you out

Unionizing and striking is a lot of hard work. We need to get rid of this idea that unionizing is being lazy. You do need to work hard to get ahead in life. However "working hard" does not always have to mean serving the ruling class.

If you can't quit your job and live off income from rentals, dividends or interest then you are working class, no matter how much you earn.

i mean alot of us still are. about half the people i work with have another job or even two other jobs.

We need unions for gig work. I've been sewing for decades and no one wants to pay more than $10 an hour. One guy I was subcontracting for said to me "I could have ppl in China do this for a lot less." - I packed up my tools mid-job and F'd him - a month later his shop had a FOR SALE sign. crapitalists need unions too, they're just too greedy to SEE it.

​@doggodoggo3000 Exactly why we need even more unions for those folks too. Nobody should need to work 80 hours to live in any city

They were good decades ago...now, they mostly just destroy private companies or rip-off the taxpayers.

@@doggodoggo3000 you are lying. It’s probably just you commenting with yourself.

"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. If there is no struggle, there is no progress." Frederick Douglass

Why not the CEO with the worker?

@@everythingpony why the CEO only, as is the format of interviews now? Workers are autonomous human beings. They don't need their hands held in an interview and, as far as I'm concerned, until there's a more equal footing between management and workers, I'd argue they're the more important subject.

I was there, and there was A LOT if excitement. I'm also really proud of my hometown

They’re going to move production to Mexico where it used to be. Great job 🤡

@@SpaceGringos3D if they were going to produce those cars in Mexico, they would never have opened a plant in Chattanooga, they would just open another plant in Mexico because the labor is cheaper there than anywhere in the US for manufacturing. Besides, all volkswagen plants in the world are organized by labor unions. Chattanooga used to be the exception until they voted for it

@@samsadowitz1724 history will repeat itself. Production will get moved to where it’s cheaper. Welcome to capitalism.

@@SpaceGringos3D but why go to chattanooga to begin with if labor is more expensive than Mexico already? That capitalism does not compute

You and the likes are fake

​@@jarrettesselman8144Says the guy posting in the wind .

@@frankd.506 it’s all fake.

​@@jarrettesselman8144 you're an embarrassment of a "person"

I'm in NW GA, but work at VW Chatt in assembly, I believe we were just the first domino in a long line of dominoes to fall. #UnionStrong

The UFCW should be all over that one..

Let's be a little careful with that phrase. 😄

@@AmateurHistorian999 LOL, you're not wrong.

@@AlexKawa20I love that it came from a historian 😂

In a good way for once! 💙

All of these comments are one person talking to himself

I work at VW Chatt, we were relatively sure we were gonna win this time, but the margin that we won by [73%] blew a lot of our minds.

@@tmurph247 it blew my mind too, I don't work there, but I support all unions and especially the strong unions that fight for their members

So inspiring

I wish all factories would unionize. But VW was the easiest challenge on that front: All other VW plants worldwide have been unionized, Chattanooga was the odd one out. Also VW wanted to have UAW unionize Chattanooga in 2013, but Tennessee and US politicians fought back and stopped the move. I'm so happy the workers finally voted for unionization this time, this has been long overdue. But VW is famous for working with their unions more than other companies, so while the unionizers sure did a hard and great job, while they were not really kicking in doors that were already open, the doors were not secured with a drop bar either. The next unionization of a non-US automaker's US-plant will be an even harder battle. But this is a fantastic step in the right direction and gets the campaign for unionizing foreign automakers in the US up to a good start. Carry the momentum on!

@@Dr.-Ing._M 100% see your point. I kept seeing during the coverage that while VW did do the typical anti-union PR, it was more tame vs. Starbucks/Amazon. The others will be a harder battle for sure and I imagine already the UAW priced in losses. While insping to hear him talk about the big 3 becoming the big 12, he knows the odds are slim but at the same time if we can use this momentum to add to the now Big 4 and make it into say the Big 6-7, the clock moves decades in the right direction.

I think they should also demand union membership on the board of directors. Just like they have in the Volkswagen factories in Germany.

@@MrMarinus18 Agreed. I actually wish there was more collaboration between the big unions and activist investors where we could actually force our way into the boardroom. Imagine combining the groundroots workers with the financial muscle some of these activist investors have.

@@sgs8747 Activist investors? I don't think there are many of those. Some might have ideals but those ideals will very quickly fall away if they feel their power is threatened in any way. It was the same way with the feudal lords. They had a lot of talk of chivalry and some did legitimately try hard to live up to it. But the moment their power was threatened they did whatever they could to keep their rivals or peasants down.

Winning in Alabama would probably throw the earth off its axis!

​@@ellengrace4609 we definitely finna win.

@@JRLL81_ I hope you do! 💪🏼

Right on, brother.

All of the comments are fake just like yours

The unions have destroyed millions and millions of good jobs in the last 50 years.

And make things more expensive and destroy jobs in the long run

Unions are the reason why we have weekends, safety regulations and no children in the workplace.

​@@jarrettesselman8144 Wrong. I worked for bobcat where they have 2 factories in ND. One factory voted to unionize and the other didn't. Guess which factory got all the money and contracts after unionizing. The other factory was a revolving door of employees and treated them like less than garbage, which I got to watch from the windows above the factory floor.

@@BreakingGaia you are lying.

Stop censoring our comments!!

You mean for 'China' Joe?

​​@@user-hx2wx7mk8n Xi is Anti-Union!! You Can Bet On It!!

Log in to your real account if you want anyone to take you seriously Ivan

Right on TRump paying non union employees to stand and pretend with him meanwhile we now have a pro labor NLRB chief and a bill to make it easier to unionize.

​@@user-hx2wx7mk8nHow's the new account with no content.🧌

You will just make the cars more expensive and jobs harder to get

Jared: buy foreign made, the initial cost will be less. Until you need repairs. IE: Kia, made in Korea.

You are fake

All of these comments are fake. Unions suck.

gotta meet people where they are. all folks have their prejudice, putting on the mullet folks garb and talking union shop with them.... if it works.... it works. who would have thought a mullet would lower someone's defenses

Well, in general I would not disagree that corporations are blinded to the benefits of unions, but VW is probably one of the most union friendly global corporations there is. All their factories are unionized, and part of VW is state owned in Germany. And it has worked fantastically well for VW so far, working with the union is really good for the corporation as a whole, and at least some of the German management in VW knows that.

LAYOFFS COMING

@@vart7767 It will not be so easy to get layoffs past the union's resistance now. United you stand, divided they can lay off whoever they want. And all VW plants in the world are unionized. VW would never lay off workers because a plant has a union, they would have no workers left if they did 😆

Temp work is basically slavery. The temp services take so much out of your check that you often end up earning less than minimum wage. I did temp work when I was between jobs. It was terrible.

@@GenerationX1984 none of that happens. You are lying.

@@jarrettesselman8144why are you accusing commenters of lying. I see this same comment from you as a reply in many peoples comments. Are you okay?

@@GenerationX1984 When I was at Honda back in 2012, I was making $11.35 an hour when full timers were making over $30/hour. I'm not sure how big the cut was that Adecco was taking from us, but I know that it was substantial. What really sucks about having a bullshit 2 tiered pay system like that is that the cheaper employees get abused constantly. We worked 6-7 day weeks often with mandatory overtime and STILL couldn't afford the most basic costs of living even with rent split 3 ways at the time. This companies exploit labor at an extreme level and rake in billions in profits while their employees can't even afford rent, let alone purchase one of the vehicles they build every day. It was honestly pathetic, and I will never, ever consider purchasing a Honda because of my experiences there.

NOW THEY WILL MOVE TO MEXICO

@@vart7767There are reasons why people aren’t doing that: Mexico’s improving economy is giving workers more leverage and that is in turn making some of the advantage less extreme than in the past.

@@vart7767 No, they won't. VW already has plants in Mexico, and they are all already unionized. The Chattanooga VW plant was the only non unionized VW plant in the whole world.

REALLY WELCOME TO YOUR UNION DUES

​@@vart7767I'm just curious, how much do you think union dues are each month? Like just throw out a ballpark figure of what you think it is, I'm curious.

Oh, and if inflation does finally hit the economy as a whole, expect to hear that this and other union wins are the cause.

American auto makers still exploit tho, just look at all the jobs they sent to mexico

You are lying. All of these comments are fake.

​@@jarrettesselman8144are you a schizo or just paid off by somebody lol

​@@jarrettesselman8144"development crunch" is a well documented occurrence in the video game industry.

Yep. Doesn’t change how fake all of this is.