Officials in Tennessee celebrated when Volkswagen elected to sink more than $1 billion into a new plant in Chattanooga.
But a discussion, initiated by senior VW executives in Germany, about whether the Chattanooga facility might need a union now is raising alarms within the local business community.
"Nobody wants it," says Roland Zitt, president of Mahle Industries, who divides his time between the company's North American headquarters in Farmington Hills, MI, outside Detroit and Morristown, TN, where the supplier operates a manufacturing plant.
The German born-Zitt says both the Tennessee Chamber of Commerce and Tennessee Chapter of the German-American Chamber of Commerce have taken a stand against unionization at the plant.
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