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If VW Chattanooga unionized, where would the money go?

84 views · Published 25 July 2013 · 0:45 · Indexed 30 October 2026

Channel: chattanooga times free press · 2013 · News & Politics

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If workers at Chattanooga's Volkswagen plant vote for a union, they'll have to pay for the privilege.
A report in today's Times Free Press shows just how much they'll be paying and where that money would go.
Hourly workers would earmark two hours of pay each month in union dues. 
So a production worker paid $19 an hour wage would contribute $456 a year. If you multiply that by the number of workers and possible bonuses, it amounts to more than $800,000 a year.
The United Auto Workers says 38 percent of those dues would stay with the local group. Another 32 percent goes to the international union's general fund. And the remaining 30 percent goes into a strike fund.

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