Matt Patterson of the Center for Worker Freedom is speaking today at the Conservative Leadership Conference in Raleigh, NC. His presentation will be at 3pm. To read more about the other speakers and more about the event click here.

In an effort to try and embarrass and humiliate a Subaru dealership, the local United Brotherhood Of Carpenters And Joiners Of America Local 201 union in Wichita put up a sign in front of the dealership, located on public property, which reads “SHAME ON SUBARU OF WICHITA.”

Rather than taking the criticism, the dealership cleverly fought back with a sign almost identical in design which reads "FOR HAVING UNBEATABLE PRICES"

Ouch. This should be a lesson to unions - two can play at this game.

The UAW has lost the election for the unionization of the VW plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The union is not accepting this defeat easily, if at all. They recently filed an objection with the NLRB, claiming that the election was compromised by political interference. Matt Patterson of the Center for Worker Freedom writes for the Times Free Press in Chattanooga about this very issue. In an article entitled “The UAW Against.

Ever thought that dues for unions are like a tax, taxes that come out of the workers’ paychecks to pay for representation? And what do these workers get in return? Matt Patterson Executive Director at the Center for Worker Freedom wrote commentary about this very issue that was featured in the Detroit Free Press on Sunday.  Below is an excerpt:

Union dues are a tax.

Matt Patterson discusses the UAW vote in VW Chattanooga plant. He explains the CWF efforts as well as the efforts of the UAW in Chattanooga to win this vote.

Listen below:
 

Matt Patterson on Fox New Special Report discussing the Volkswagen Chattanooga Vote

Unions have been known to use a variety of -- shall we say -- creative methods to win representation elections, including (but not limited to) collusion with government officials, threats, intimidation and even outright violence.

In an excellent article for RealClearMarkets, economist Diana Furchtgott-Roth speculates as to the real reason Volkswagen seems to be bending over backward to help the UAW into its Chattanooga facility, despite the fact that unionization would increase labor costs and hurt productivity:  IG Metall, the industrial union that controls the company's Works Council back in Germany.  

A win for the UAW, she notes, would also be a win for Metall, even if it means a loss for the plant itself:

Late Wednesday Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) -- who has been an outspoken critic of the United Auto Workers (UAW) union-- dropped a bombshell into the already incendiary debate about unionization at Chattanooga's Volkswagen assembly plant.

Corker's office released a statement claiming that the Senator had it on good authority that a vote against unionization by VW workers would secure the long-sought expansion of the Chattanooga facility.  From the Chattanoogan: