{"id":120726,"date":"2017-11-10T15:01:39","date_gmt":"2017-11-10T20:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedetroitbureau.com\/?p=120726"},"modified":"2017-11-10T16:16:49","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T21:16:49","slug":"uaw-beaten-in-ohio-glass-supplier-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/2017\/11\/uaw-beaten-in-ohio-glass-supplier-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the Ground Collapsing Under the UAW?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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While the UAW provided plenty of support, Fuyao Glass employees voted against union representation by a two-to-one margin. (Photo credit: UAW)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Forget the big ones, the UAW cannot seem to capture any victories these days as workers\u00a0at the\u00a0Fuyao\u00a0Glass Industry Group Co. Ltd. plant in Moraine, Ohio, voted by a better than two-to-one margin against union representation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The loss at the glass supplier is doubly difficult as the plant is a suburb of Dayton, Ohio, which was once a union stronghold for General Motors employees. It also comes on the heels of a stinging rebuke at Nissan’s plant in Canton, Mississippi.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cFuyao\u00a0workers fighting for a voice in their workplace were unable to win against a barrage of anti-labor tactics and intimidation by management at the Ohio glass plant,\u201d the UAW said in a statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Fuyao\u00a0is\u00a0a Chinese automotive glass supplier whose\u00a0customers include General Motors Co, Ford Motor Co, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV, Daimler AG and Toyota Motor Corp. The company\u00a0opened the plant in Moraine in 2016 as part of a\u00a0$1 billion expansion in the United States.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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(UAW files\u00a0charges\u00a0against Tesla’s Fremont, California, plant with NLRB. For more, <\/em>Click Here<\/a><\/span>.)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The UAW has dealt with a variety of issues in the last 18 months. Not only did the Canton vote not go its way, it also came up short at Volkswagen of America’s plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, before that.<\/p>\n

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Despite outside support from nearby local units, employees at Fuyao voted against UAW representation. (Photo credit: UAW)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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The losing streak has only been compounded by the negative publicity the union has endured due to an\u00a0expanding U.S. Justice Department probe into alleged misuse of funds at UAW training centers funded by the Detroit automakers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The probe initially focused on Fiat Chrysler, but investigators recently expanded it to include Ford and GM. While no misconduct has been revealed yet, both automakers are cooperating with the investigation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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(<\/em>Click Here<\/a><\/span>\u00a0for details about the FCA\/UAW training center investigation.)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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These losses and the ongoing scandal are going to make it more difficult take on the UAW’s next big fish: Tesla. The union has been meeting with employees as part of a grassroots-style campaign to force a vote at the California-based EV maker.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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It has already filed several complaints with the National Labor Relations Board on behalf of current and former employees about the working conditions in the maker’s Fremont, California, plant.\u00a0The UAW charges\u00a0the company intimidated\u00a0and harassed employees,\u00a0terminated\u00a0a\u00a0group of employees to discourage protected pro-union activity\u00a0and disciplined employees for wearing items with the UAW logo.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In\u00a0addition,\u00a0Tesla\u00a0\u201cterminated\u00a0or disciplined\u201d employees in retaliation\u00a0for participating\u00a0in protected concerted activities, and more, the union said.\u00a0Tesla, which recently fired hundreds of employees from\u00a0its motor\u00a0division for what were described as \u201cperformance issues,\u201d\u00a0has not confirmed how many\u00a0employees were\u00a0terminated\u00a0several\u00a0pro-union employees\u00a0were fired from jobs at the company\u2019s factory in Fremont, and plans to fight the charges.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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(To see more about the UAW’s loss at Nissan’s Mississippi plant, <\/em>Click Here<\/a><\/span>.)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cNo one at Tesla has ever or will\u00a0ever have\u00a0any action taken against them based on their feelings on\u00a0unionization. It\u2019s\u00a0worth remembering that each year,\u201d the spokesperson said, noting\u00a0that roughly\u00a020,000 ULPs are filed with the NLRB by unions like the UAW as\u00a0an organizing\u00a0tactic.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Forget the big ones, the UAW cannot seem to capture any victories these days as workers at the Fuyao Glass plant in Ohio, voted no on UAW representation. See more at TheDetroitBureau.com. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4389,"featured_media":120725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"make":[],"post-state":[],"category_old":[151],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120726"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4389"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120726"},{"taxonomy":"make","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/make?post=120726"},{"taxonomy":"post-state","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post-state?post=120726"},{"taxonomy":"category_old","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/category_old?post=120726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}