While Volkswagen's determined to involve their employees in decisions, their employees seem determined to not have the United Auto Workers union involved in the future Chattanooga work council.
As the United States is, as a rule, rather unwelcoming to labor unions, it may not be a surprised that the existing workers would also be unwelcome to the current Union option. However, the German System that Volkswagen comes from is contrastingly very welcome to the idea of unions and cooperation between employees and management, as we learned in class this previous week.
So it would be interesting to see how Volkswagen and plant employees come to a compromise.
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The German Union representation is very different from the way America has organized labor. Under American law, unions cannot collectively bargain on wages and benefits. However, is not the the case for this union. They are satisfied with their compensation, but would like to create a union to deal with keeping positive relationship between labor and management. In Germany, the relationship between labor and management is vital for business and the reason why they have good wages and excellent products. There is respect between labor and management. This is a concept American businesses can learn from.
With the uncertainty and low consumer confidence and unemployment and inequality, this might be a concept that America really should learn from. With the recession and job losses, consumers are concerned that they will be the next to lose their job, and because there is little loyalty to firms by employees, this concern might often have a presence in the back of anyone's mind. If Americans can learn from other countries, like Germany, who foster loyalty to employees, this could have a much more positive impact on the recovery as consumers would become more confident that they will continue to have their disposable income in the future and would potentially be more likely to spend rather than save, increasing economic activity.
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