Bob Corker: I'm 'Public Enemy No. 1' of the UAW

The Detroit News reports:

Tennessee Sen. Bob Corker on Thursday urged the National Labor Relations Board not to overturn the election results at Volkswagen AG's Chattanooga plant after the United Auto Workers union appealed the results.

The UAW said outside groups and individuals — like Corker — had sought to intimidate workers, who on the first day of three days of voting said he had been told that if workers rejected the UAW, the German automaker would decide to locate production of a new planned midsize SUV in Tennessee.

"I probably am 'Public Enemy No. 1' to the UAW," Corker told reporters at a breakfast sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor because he had pushed in hearings in late 2008 when U.S. automakers were seeking bailouts that the UAW agree to competitive overall wages and benefits with lower paid U.S. autoworkers at foreign-owned plants. "There's no doubt there is some pent up anger towards me."

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