Germany escaped fines and defeated the European Union’s regulator after the bloc’s highest court said its redraft of the so-called Volkswagen law doesn’t clash with EU rules.
Germany’s changes to the VW law “complied in full” with a 2007 ruling, the EU Court of Justice in Luxembourg said, rejecting a challenge by the European Commission, the bloc’s executive authority.
Four workers at Volkswagen AG’s plant in Tennessee filed charges on Wednesday with U.S. labor officials alleging that German VW officials are coercing them to agree to UAW representation.
Volkswagen’s top executives are divided over whether and how workers at the company’s U.S. plant should be represented by a union, but ultimately will insist on a formal vote by those employees, a person with knowledge of the VW board’s thinking said.
Volkswagen’s top labor leader, Bernd Osterloh, lent weight to efforts by the United Auto Workers union to represent workers at the automaker’s U.S. plant, an issue that has raised opposition among some politicians and union critics.
A Washington anti-union group filed complaints with the National Labor Relations Board on behalf of eight workers who allege they were misled by UAW officials attempting to organize Volkswagen Chattanooga assembly plant.
