Worker Notes: The VW Emissions Scandal Is A Powerful Lesson For Management & Labor Reps
By Tom Crofton The Commoner Call (6/19/17) Further information on the unique design of the German labor movement is provided in the investigative work “Faster, Higher, Farther: The Volkswagen Scandal” by Jack Ewing. The irony that a management scandal occurred under the highly regarded German combined labor/management system will be discussed at the end of this piece, but the precedent for labor taking more than an adversarial role is worth investigating more deeply. Ewing writes: “When the British gave up administrative control of Volkswagen in 1949, they passed ownership to the German Federal government, which delegated control to the…