Commissioner Warren Mackey, D-Lake Vista, said unions work “across the planet” and asked why the United Auto Workers shouldn’t do so at the Volkswagen factory in the city.
Mackey, wearing a red T-shirt supporting the UAW at the meeting, said the company doesn’t object to the union. Volkswagen officials have said they’re neutral on union representation and leaving the decision to workers.
County Commissioner David Sharpe, D-Red Bank, questioned at the meeting if a gathering Monday of Republican state and local officials outside the plant urging workers to vote against the union ran afoul of federal labor law.
