United States Senator Bob Corker counseled Volkswagon officials against allowing their Chattanooga assembly plant to be unionized by the United Auto Workers (UAW). In Corker’s view, an organized plant would be “highly detrimental” to the auto manufacturer. The Senator’s comments are seasoned by his experience with the 2008 Federal Government bailout of General Motors and Chrysler. UAW President Bob King responded that Corker’s “comments are a reference to the past, not how the UAW operates now.”
