In a column for the Chattanooga Times-Free Press, CWF Executive Director Matt Patterson chronicles the desperate nature of the UAW’s drive to organize southern manufacturing facilities:

In a column for the Fox News “The NLRB Targets Tennessee,” CWF Executive Director Matt Patterson details the reaction of Chattanoogans to the continued organization drive by the UAW in their local Volkswagen plant, now with assistance from Obama’s National Labor Relations Board:

Chattanoogans — the vast majority of whom lean conservative or libertarian —  feel betrayed.  No one told them, when the deal was being made to bring VW to their area, that it would mean inviting this union viper into their bed. 

Writing for Forbes, CWF’s Matt Patterson profiles the UAW’s presumptive next president Dennis Williams:

Williams is a former welder, but also boasts an another impressive credential on his resume, a credit indicative of the UAW’s true nature and an indication of where its loyalties and aspirations lay: Williams has a long history with Barack Obama, and was even a key member of the Obama’s organizing team for the Iowa caucuses in 2008.

For more information on how the United Auto Workers helped drive Detroit into the ditch, read this special report co-authored last year by the CWF Executive Director Matt Patterson for National Review, “Detroit: Empire of Rust.”  Here’s an excerpt: