{"id":13715,"date":"2024-05-20T14:30:50","date_gmt":"2024-05-20T14:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=13715"},"modified":"2024-05-20T14:30:50","modified_gmt":"2024-05-20T14:30:50","slug":"a-unionized-volkswagen-plant-in-tennessee-could-mean-big-things-for-workers-nationwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=13715","title":{"rendered":"A unionized Volkswagen plant in Tennessee could mean big things for workers nationwide"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;There\u2019s a significant and persistent union premium, with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2024\/03\/20\/union-workers-wealth-comparison-pay-difference\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">unionized workers making more money<\/a>. Additionally, there\u2019s the spillover effects of this. If you have a high unionization rate in your locality, the other employers pay better as well, to remain competitive \u2014 a kind of \u201crising tides lifts all boats\u201d situation. Without unionization, in the South, it depresses wages across the board, and then in turn it depresses wages across the country because there\u2019s always this threat that auto companies could leave Detroit and go south.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/money\/2024\/4\/24\/24138640\/uaw-union-vote-volkswagen-tennessee\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/money\/2024\/4\/24\/24138640\/uaw-union-vote-volkswagen-tennessee<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;There\u2019s a significant and persistent union premium, with unionized workers making more money. Additionally, there\u2019s the spillover effects of this. If you have a high unionization rate in your locality, the other employers pay better as well, to remain competitive \u2014 a kind of \u201crising tides lifts all boats\u201d situation. Without unionization, in the South, it depresses wages across the board, and then in turn it depresses wages across the country because there\u2019s always this threat that auto companies could leave Detroit and go south.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.vox.com\/money\/2024\/4\/24\/24138640\/uaw-union-vote-volkswagen-tennessee<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[877],"class_list":["post-13715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-unions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13716,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13715\/revisions\/13716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}