“King” Of Nowhere: UAW Chief Makes Noise, Not War

by Matt Patterson on February 13, 2013 · 1 comment

in Labor

 Poor Bob King.  Perhaps no other union leader presides over an organization in such stark decline as the United Auto Workers. At its peak in 1979, the UAW boasted a membership of 1.5 million. Today, by its own admission, it boasts a mere 390,000. And Michigan’s newly passed right-to-work law almost certainly will make it harder for the union to both retain existing members and recruit new ones.

The dire demography explains why the UAW is desperate to organize in the so-called “transnational” automakers – foreign companies whose manufacturing plants are largely scattered throughout the low-tax, low-regulation – and less-unionized — southern states. King is not shy about admitting as much:…To Read More….