Well this is what happens when you let Germans build an auto plant in a patriotic right-to-work-with-no-rights-at-work state like Tennessee: First chance they get, the damned socialists start acting like their employees are entitled to union representation, even though the whole point of
<a href="https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch\?v=n9Kr5RKej-Y" target="_blank">Mercedes beat them to it. </a> You too can destroy desert ecosystems in style!
Rommel would have won if he&#039;d had it . . . or at least, he&#039;d have been very hard to catch.
Why do these titwhiskers think anyone will want to start a business in their state if they are willing to cut off all the noses to spite themselves ? Oh I&#039;ve got it now. I was confused because I was thinking of well run businesses moving to Tennesse.That sort of businesss probably wouldn&#039;t be looking at Tennesse anyway.
Amusing OT side story about the BJU art collection.
Jones bought (well, acquired) a ton of really good European religious art by second-string Renaissance and Baroque painters at a time when museums only wanted the big names. So the collection is really very good.
But the specifics of Catholic iconography escaped the BJ folks. As far as they were concerned, a painting of Jesus is a painting of Jesus.
Years ago, a very famous art historian published a book called &quot;The Sexuality of Christ,&quot; which discussed the ways in which the virile male nude of classical art was transformed into representations of Christian godhood, with a lot of interesting symbolism relating to immortality, the Resurrection, and, well, the Godhead. This includes a close and serious study of Renaissance and Baroque paintings of Christ with an erection, sometimes on the Cross, sometimes not. Sometimes with a loincloth added later. Or under the loincloth. A major example of which is in the aptly named BJ University collection.
Needless to say, BJU&#039;s art historians were Not Pleased.
An aspect of this that I wish got more attention (or <i>any</i> attention from the RWNJs) is that the corporate management of VW -- the undoubtedly rich, privileged, elitist, in-bed-with-politicians corporate management -- regard the &quot;works council&quot; approach as a <i>key competitive advantage</i>. Not a necessary evil, or a bit of PR fluff, but a central contributor to their financial success.
If I take the statements of VW officials seriously, it seems clear that (1) if the union vote fails, they won&#039;t expand the plant, and I&#039;d expect that they&#039;d start looking seriously at winding it down, and (2) if the vote succeeds, VW management will be looking at the state to provide guarantees of future incentives (they <i>are</i> a will-suck-at-the government-teat-when-possible business concern, after all), and if they don&#039;t get satisfactory guarantees, see (1) above. Also, the plant expansion will go elsewhere -- apparently Mexico, although Lansing would be sweet.
They will do this, not because they are particularly nice guys or give a shit about &quot;Right-To-Work&quot; laws, but because they are the management of a major multi-national manufacturing corporation, executing their corporate strategy.
I feel sorry for the workers of Chattanooga, but I&#039;m pretty sure the TN wingers will fuck this up, because ideology trumps economics for them.
Figures they&#039;d rely on the most regressive tax imaginable. Still, workers need wages to buy those taxable groceries -- the rationale is the same.
<a href="https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch\?v=n9Kr5RKej-Y" target="_blank">Mercedes beat them to it. </a> You too can destroy desert ecosystems in style!
Rommel would have won if he&#039;d had it . . . or at least, he&#039;d have been very hard to catch.
You&#039;re forcing them to allow the choice.
They want their country back. <i>Way</i> back.
The Tennesse GOP needs to kill the those jobs in order to save them.
Why do these titwhiskers think anyone will want to start a business in their state if they are willing to cut off all the noses to spite themselves ? Oh I&#039;ve got it now. I was confused because I was thinking of well run businesses moving to Tennesse.That sort of businesss probably wouldn&#039;t be looking at Tennesse anyway.
Amusing OT side story about the BJU art collection.
Jones bought (well, acquired) a ton of really good European religious art by second-string Renaissance and Baroque painters at a time when museums only wanted the big names. So the collection is really very good.
But the specifics of Catholic iconography escaped the BJ folks. As far as they were concerned, a painting of Jesus is a painting of Jesus.
Years ago, a very famous art historian published a book called &quot;The Sexuality of Christ,&quot; which discussed the ways in which the virile male nude of classical art was transformed into representations of Christian godhood, with a lot of interesting symbolism relating to immortality, the Resurrection, and, well, the Godhead. This includes a close and serious study of Renaissance and Baroque paintings of Christ with an erection, sometimes on the Cross, sometimes not. Sometimes with a loincloth added later. Or under the loincloth. A major example of which is in the aptly named BJ University collection.
Needless to say, BJU&#039;s art historians were Not Pleased.
I stand corrected sir.
An aspect of this that I wish got more attention (or <i>any</i> attention from the RWNJs) is that the corporate management of VW -- the undoubtedly rich, privileged, elitist, in-bed-with-politicians corporate management -- regard the &quot;works council&quot; approach as a <i>key competitive advantage</i>. Not a necessary evil, or a bit of PR fluff, but a central contributor to their financial success.
If I take the statements of VW officials seriously, it seems clear that (1) if the union vote fails, they won&#039;t expand the plant, and I&#039;d expect that they&#039;d start looking seriously at winding it down, and (2) if the vote succeeds, VW management will be looking at the state to provide guarantees of future incentives (they <i>are</i> a will-suck-at-the government-teat-when-possible business concern, after all), and if they don&#039;t get satisfactory guarantees, see (1) above. Also, the plant expansion will go elsewhere -- apparently Mexico, although Lansing would be sweet.
They will do this, not because they are particularly nice guys or give a shit about &quot;Right-To-Work&quot; laws, but because they are the management of a major multi-national manufacturing corporation, executing their corporate strategy.
I feel sorry for the workers of Chattanooga, but I&#039;m pretty sure the TN wingers will fuck this up, because ideology trumps economics for them.
Figures they&#039;d rely on the most regressive tax imaginable. Still, workers need wages to buy those taxable groceries -- the rationale is the same.
DAS VIN!!
&#039;Round about that time, the union boys found themselves in a heap o trouble...
Well, they&#039;re halfway there. (at least)
Hippies?
Just like Momma used to say: dumb fuck is as dumb fuck does.
TN state Lege: the crack whores of cronyism.
Can&#039;t understand what ain&#039;t there.