" The United Auto Workers union is staking its future on the kind of struggle it hasn't waged since the 1930s: a massive drive to organize hostile factories. "

"the union is going after U.S. plants owned by German manufacturers Volkswagen AG and Daimler AG, seen as easier nuts to crack
than the Japanese and South Koreans.....
  .....By failing to organize factories run by foreign automakers, the union has been a spectator to the only growth in the U.S. auto industry in the last 30 years."

uaw chief king kon's line
"If the UAW fails to crack the transplants, as it calls foreign car factories in the United States, the union has no future "

however
" naming a target would be seen as a hostile act and could undo the progress made behind the scenes with VW and Daimler"



note this:

"Key to winning is the backing of the German union IG Metall, 

IG Metall, wants to keep the United States from becoming a cheap-labor alternative to Germany, is also helping the United Steelworkers try to organize a ThyssenKrupp steel plant that opened in Alabama last year"

in other car news:

"At Smyrna, Nissan is expanding. It is opening a battery plant and adding production of the all-electric Leaf.

Many of the new jobs are lower-wage temporary positions working for contractor Yates Services. Those workers wear brown uniforms to distinguish them from Nissan's regular hires in blue or gray. In some parts of the Smyrna complex, temporary workers now account for up to 60 percent of the jobs"