Tornado Alley (PROG)

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Will a new South emerge from the UAW showdown?
Steven Pearlstein FEB 15

There is irony in the efforts of business leaders to prevent 1,500 blue-collar workers from unionizing.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/will-a-new-new-south-emerge-from-the-showdown-in-chattanooga/2014/02/14/9a1d4bd6-9362-11e3-83b9-1f024193bb84_story.html

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The political and economic melodrama playing out in Chattanooga has revealed that a bit of the old plantation mentality lives on among Southern business and political elites. In the faster-growing and more prosperous regional economies of the North and West, companies are trying to boost performance by increasing employee engagement and empowerment, not suppressing it. Their business strategies are based not on assuring a steady supply of cheap labor but on increasing the number of highly paid and highly skilled workers. Rather than trying to nullify federal labor law and crush what remains of the much-diminished union movement, these companies, like VW, are looking at new models of workplace cooperation and collaboration.

.. that's from the first of the bottom stories in the one this replies to .. lies, intimidation, threats .. just GOP politics, eh ..