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The UAW's double-dealing on Tesla

by Vincent Vernuccio

 | April 03, 2018 12:00 AM

 

At the same time the United Auto Workers union is trying to stop Tesla from building more dealerships in New York, it's working to get the Tesla employees to join its ranks.

(Mark Kauzlarich/Bloomberg)

he California automaker Tesla would like to build more of its direct-to-consumer dealerships in New York. Legislation that would allow it to do so has received bipartisan support this session.

But the Tesla bill has also drawn a surprising foe — the United Auto Workers union. What makes the union's opposition so shocking? At the same time UAW is trying to halt Tesla's car sales, it's actively working to get the Tesla employees who build those cars to join its ranks.

A brief history lesson helps explain the UAW's current double-dealing in New York. Since at least 2016, the UAW has been engaged in an organizing campaign focused on Tesla's auto manufacturing plant in Fremont, Calif. The union's unflattering history at this plant makes achieving this goal an uphill climb. Its outdated and combative representation model helped close the same Fremont plant twice before when GM used it for production in 1982, and again in 2010 when Toyota and GM used it for a joint venture.

Adding to the UAW's troubled track record in California are its national woes. The union suffered a series of high-profile organizing losses in 2017; it's the subject of an ongoing federal investigation into union leaders' misuse of funds intended for member training.

Rather than own up to its mistakes and chart a course for reform, the UAW's response has been to change the subject. At Tesla specifically, the union has turned to its tried-and-true "corporate campaign" playbook. This term refers to a union's negative public relations efforts to damage a company’s reputation and harm its bottom line. Former UAW President Bob King described it as "a global campaign to brand [a company that doesn't play ball with the union] a human rights violator."

In its current campaign at Tesla in California, that's meant lobbying against the company in the state capitol of Sacramento, and planting negative stories about workers' safety at the plant. That latter tactic has been less effective, as it served to highlight that safety rates were considerably worse when the UAW was last in charge. But the UAW's corporate campaign is not limited by state lines, which is why it's also trying to damage the company's expansion efforts out east.

In a letter sent this year to New York State legislators, the UAW's local representatives said it was "wrong" to allow Tesla to open additional dealerships in the state. The union argued, bizarrely, that these dealerships were part of Tesla's strategy to "undermine" its workers' rights to organize.

This isn't the first time the union has opposed Tesla's attempts to sell more cars: Last year, the UAW's local representatives successfully advocated against a direct-sales bill that would have allowed the California company to do business in Connecticut.

You don't need to be an auto industry CEO to understand that, for Tesla's employees to do well, Tesla needs to sell more cars in more states to more people. The UAW — contrary to its organizing committee's pledge to "make Tesla the best car company in the world" — is actively working against that goal.

The union's underhanded tactics help demonstrate the self-interested reason for its opposition to Tesla's expansion in New York. It's also a wake-up call for employees in Fremont who may live under the illusion that the UAW has their best interests at heart. Nissan employees in Mississippi, Fuyao Glass employees in Dayton, and Volkswagen employees in Chattanooga have all reached the same conclusion about the union in the past few years, as all voted to reject joining it.

The endgame in any corporate campaign is to get the company to agree to the union's demands — after which the hardball tactics come to end. But this time, the UAW's campaign has backfired, because it demonstrates to workers in Fremont that the union has its own pocketbook in mind — not theirs.

F. Vincent Vernuccio is a former special assistant to the assistant secretary for administration and management at the Department of Labor under President George W. Bush
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