AFL-CIO statement on Volkswagen vote doesn't mention that labor didn't want it

Leaders of the AFL-CIO issued a statement Wednesday denouncing Tennessee Republicans for their “unconscionable abuse of power” in opposing the United Auto Workers’ recent bid to organize a Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga. They called the lawmakers’ efforts “an attack on … workers exercising their rights” — without ever mentioning that UAW had actually opposed allowing the workers to have a vote in the first place.

The statement was issued by the AFL-CIO’s executive council, which is currently meeting in Houston. It also denounced conservative activist “Grover Norquist, the Koch brothers and others, whose identify we have yet to learn.”