original car illustration by donkeyhotey on flickr

While 4,300 workers in Volkswagen’s auto factory in Chattanooga, Tennessee, were about to vote on whether to join the United Auto Workers (UAW), thus making their plant the first in the South to have a unionized workforce, suddenly the governors of Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas burst on the scene.

Tootin’ and hollerin’, the GOP jesters scrambled out of their tiny clown car and proceeded in slapstick style to demand that the workers vote against the UAW. Why? Because, explained the gaggle of laissez-fairyland governors in a side-splitting routine, getting fair pay, family benefits, and democratic say-so over working conditions will be “a detriment [to] American workers.”

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