A Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga has been the subject of considerable turmoil due to an organizing effort by the United Auto Workers. This is not exactly a grassroots effort by the workers, though.

Instead, it is being driven by outside pressure from UAW, which hopes to take advantage of European labor laws to make organizing easier at foreign-owned American plants. They are so eager that they are cutting corners in the process.

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