Funny how the union and their allies in the Democrat party can't conceive that the vote would go this way without some sort of interference and collusion between VW and local politicians. Gee, maybe unions don't make inroads in the South because in the South we can simply look at what unions did to Detroit and the rest of the Rust Belt.
Unions had their place when companies were doing things like paying workers in company scrip, forcing them to work in hazardous conditions, etc. Those things are now protected against by law, which removed a substantial part of the unions' reason for existing. The only thing they've really accomplished in recent decades is to drive out business and hence economic growth. Hostess bakery, anyone?