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Transcripts For MSNBCW The Ed Show 20140212

0 reverberate through the auto industry. >> surprise. >> they're also running some radio ads as well. >> they're piling out like clowns out of a circus car. >> deprive what it calls the united obama workers union. >> volkswagen is a german company. >> good to have you with us tonight, folks. thanks for watching. i want you to focus on the word freedom because how many times have we heard the republicans and the conservative movement talk about freedom. they love that word. everything is connected to freedom, except in the workplace. chattanooga, tennessee, is now ground zero when it comes to union rights in america. we got a dandy of an election going on, folks. today workers of the chattanooga volkswagen plant started a voting period as to whether they're going to join the united auto workers. freedom. if this plant votes to unionize, the uaw would establish the first ever german style works council. it would negotiate wages and benefits for the plant. it is a right to work state. workers, they're not going to be forced to do anything. they don't have to join the union. nobody is beating the living tar out of them. they can do what they said. that's why i asked you to focus on the word freedom. it's what the republicans love. make no mistake, if this plant reelection? think he'd like to give back that automobile loan? you can go in state after state where the automobile loan was forked out to these economies and they've had a revival of sorts. the republicans are outraged by these uaw efforts to get people a living wage. watson is taking his opposition to a new level. this guy is making threats. he says that if the plant votes to unionize, new tax incentives for expansion could have a tough time of passing in the state senate in tennessee. >> and i believe any additional incentives from the state of tennessee for expansion or otherwise will have a very tough time passing the tennessee senate. the legislative role in this is to inform our citizens of potential consequences. >> wait a minute, senator. you want to change the legislative role. union intimidation is nothing new. it should not deter voters from working the way they want to work. here come the outside groups. they're getting involved. this could effect the election. this guy is jumping into the fray one more time. the famous norquist. he's never seen a worker that he really likes. what he's doing is buying up billboards around chattanooga warning of unionization. this billboard crosses out auto and reads "united obama workers." really innovative, huh? it says the uaw spends millions to elect politics like barack obama. detroit, brought to you by the uaw. somebody ought to remind norquist republican outsourcing caused a whole bunch of problems in detroit. they withheld state funds in that state. not a fair wage for workers. that's what they're really worried about. these petty intimidation tactics, they're not going unnoticed by vosk what volkswag. they're going to leave it up to the workers to see what they want to do in the workplace. outside political groups won't divert us from the work at hand, innovating, creating job, growing and producing great automobiles. volkswagen is committed to defending our employees' legal right to make a free choice. there's that word again, freedom. the republicans seem to have a hard time with that one if somebody is going to get paid a little more. i'm glad to see volkswagen is standing by the employees and letting them go through the process. if it fails, it could be a major setback for workers all across this country. the facts on union wages are really pretty simple. we've shown you this before. here it is. blue line and red line. this chart shows wages and union members. the red line is union membership rates. when union membership goes down, so do wages. i want to go back to this guy bowe watson. who is this guy? what dog does he have in the fight that he is all of a sudden against workers? it reminds me of the ted kennedy floor speech back in 2007 on the senate floor. what is it that you have against these workers? why is it that you have such a disdain for american workers? are you afraid that workers in the workplace have a vote it's going to destroy your economy in tennessee? his threatening legislative retribution. he's telling the people of tennessee if this vote and this plant goes through and those guys from the uaw get into our state, we're going to pass some laws so other companies aren't going to be able to get tax incentives. why does this guy hate workers? that's what the local media ought to be asking this guy down in tennessee. then there's norquist. his union workers, they might pick a candidate they might want to support. they don't want to give the workers down in tennessee an opportunity to be involved in some kind of social networks or ground effort door to door that might elect a democrat down in tennessee. so this is really the new model. we can call this the watson-norquist model for defeating unions. just plaster and threaten any kind of legislative retribution so the workers will say we're screwing up the state. we better not have a voice in the workplace. they're going to take it out on us. billboards, lies, fear tactics, you name it. all because some people want to make a little bit more money and the company doesn't have a problem with it. is this the america the republicans want? yeah, it is. tonight's question -- does the process -- does the process of legislative retribution bother you as an american? text a for yes. text b for no. you can always go to our blog. we'll bring you the results later on in the show. for me, let me bring in steve cohen of tennessee and bob king, the president of the united auto getting to have in this country. the billboards also bother me because i know president obama has his weaknesses in chattanooga and areas in the south, but his race is part of it in my opinion. i find those billboards abh abhorrent this day and time. we have one legislator who wants to allow the right to refuse service to those who are gay or in a civil union. the billboards are offensive. the idea of keeping people from decent wages -- >> you think norquist is race baiting? >> i didn't want to say that. i know him. i find the ads abhorrent. >> are you hearing about intimidation of workers? >> this campaign was built on workers in the chattanooga plant. all the cards that were signed were collected by workers in the plant. it's a great leadership council down there that has asked us to come in there and support. i think it will a tremendous story for what labor management can do together. >> what does this do for other votes? we put up a graphic about how many other manufacturing plants there are in the south. if this goes through, what does it mean to the ones in mississippi, georgia, and south carolina? >> i think it's a real positive step forward. when workers have a free, open democratic choice, workers will overwhelmingly want to have union representation. >> finally, congressman, isn't this about winning elections at the end of the day? isn't that why norquist has injected himself into this? >> i imagine it's part of it. they don't want people to vote not only in union elections. they don't want them to vote period. in the worst states with voting rights regulations, i haven't been able to get southerners so sign on even though their states are suspect areas. they don't want people to vote at all. the main way they can win is by limiting who votes. >> steve cohen and bob king, great to have you with us tonight. still ahead, the best of the worst. why republicans are keeping score of chris christie's good days and bad days. ted cruz tries to stir up trouble in the debt vote. discover card. i asked my husband to pay our bill, and he forgot. you have the it card and it's your first time missing a payment, so there's no late fee. really? 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