Groves droves. one of the biggest reasons moving there tax incentives great state to work in. not very union friendly. unions haven t been friendly in those areas like they have been in troy detroit there was a big movement by volkswagen to unionize recently and it failed overnight. it failed to unionize. it did. it failed because workers didn t want it. management was open to it. management was very open to it. it that s an understatement. this is the one plant that the uaw felt they could get a union going n the south. now it looks like the uaw pretty much restricted to the rust belt. the upper midwest. by the way, as you said, one of the main reason car manufacturers have moved down south is because they they think the uaw has hurt the industry. you know, the thing is these are people who have never had experience with the union and they hear all these horror stories from these northeastern folks and they don t want to be the first people to sign up for something that they re really not that familiar
1.5 million members in 2013, down to 383,000. the president of the uaw said if we don t get this volkswagen contract, the future of the uaw is in jeopardy. expects depressing. some people gloat over that the death of the u.s. manufacturing. the uaw is part of the reason that manufacturing has died. not the only reason. lots of other reasons. it s depressing. it s kind of interesting though because when you read this particular story, it sounds like value-added tax wagon there was an effort within volkswagen the company to send representatives in there and encourage this signing up sort of a german council work style. republicans fought really hard in tennessee to make sure it didn t happen. that s been another issue or controversy. billing boards like 13 bile boards across that area. even grover nor quest put them up. you will turn tennessee into the next detroit. the unions did it to