Billboards funded by anti-tax activist Grover Norquist

This Chattanooga billboard is funded by a group led by anti-tax activist Grover Norquist.

Too bad they don't know how to spell.



DETROIT -- Anti-union forces funded by anti-tax activist Grover Norquist are renting as many as 13 billboards in Chattanooga, Tenn., as Volkswagen workers prepare to vote next week to accept or reject representation by the UAW.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2014/02/06/detroit-blight-part-of-anti-union-fight-in-tenn/5271747/

US Honda, Kia and Toyota workers seem do have done just fine without UAW representation.


The UAW, Having Stripped Detroit Bare, Looks To The South

http://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2013/04/16/the-uaw-having-stripped-detroit-bare-looks-to-the-south/

In 2011, UAW head Bob King met with leaders of IG Metall, a large umbrella union which represents Volkswagen workers in Germany, to secure their support in his efforts to unionize the Tennessee Volkswagen plant. He initially received a lukewarm reception from his German counterparts. An IG Metall official, Peter Donath, cautioned King that the UAW could count on little actual help: “we will support the UAW, but we will not support the UAW’s work.”