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After UAW Defeat, Can GOP Fulfill Promise of Jobs?

Volkswagen workers assembling Golf 6 cars
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Volkswagen workers assembling Golf 6 cars

Republicans fighting a yearslong unionization effort at the Volkswagen plant in Tennessee painted a grim picture in the days leading up to last week's vote. Workers rejected the United Auto Workers in a close vote, so attention turns now to whether the GOP can fulfill its promises that keeping the union out means more jobs will come rolling in. Regardless of what political consequences, if any, Republicans would face if that fails to happen, the Volkswagen vote established a playbook for denying the UAW its goal of expanding into foreign-owned plants in the region. The union itself has called that the key to its long-term future.

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