While Center for Worker Freedom President Matt Patterson said he had never heard of the tactic, new UAW President Dennis Williams said it has been done before, but not for many, many years. The UAWs Gary Casteel suggested the move could be replicated at other foreign automakers Southern plants,
Date: Jul 11, 2014
Category: Business
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Thirteen billboards, one paint-shop worker helped defeat union at VW plant in ...
"My thinking is workers don't operate in a vacuum. They operate in a community and when the community realizes how much is at stake for everyone, then that message reaches everyone," said Matt Patterson, one of the chief architects of the winning anti-union strategy.
Date: Feb 22, 2014
Category: U.S.
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Tennessee VW plant becomes battleground for union push to expand
I believe the history of this union shows that itll be a threat to both the jobs this plant has created in Chattanooga and the economic health of the community as a whole, the centers director Matt Patterson told Fox News.
Date: Feb 12, 2014
Category: U.S.
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United Auto Workers' Tennessee surge brings Beltway backlash
We believe the citizens of Chattanooga and of Hamilton County deserve to know what kind of organization is coming to their town, said Matt Patterson, executive director of the Center for Worker Freedom, a 6-month-old division of Norquists group.
Date: Feb 11, 2014
Category: U.S.
Source: Google
Conservatives Activists to Oppose VW's Chattanooga Union Vote
The Center for Worker Freedom, which is backed by Grover Norquist's Americans for Tax Reform, has rented 13 billboards around Chattanooga and booked commercials on local radio stations, the group's executive director, Matt Patterson, said in a telephone interview.
Matt Patterson, an off-duty Lynn fireman and paramedic enjoying oysters and Irish coffee at Abe & Louies Steak House when the blasts went off, had been identified earlier as the first to get to Janes side. Patterson, 30, grabbed a belt from another man and tied a tourniquet to her leg. Mike Ch
They were Matt Patterson, an off-duty firefighter who unexpectedly found himself saving lives on Monday afternoon; Steven Byrne, who was wounded by one of the explosions, and 72-year-old Dick Hoyt, who has pushed his son Rick in his wheelchair across the finish line of the Boston Marathon 31 times.
volunteers, who lined the outfield, and police officers, who received wave after wave of applause. Matt Patterson, an off-duty firefighter from Lynn who rushed to the aid of a young boy, and Steven Byrne, who was injured in the blast, threw out the first pitch, as did Marathon legends Dick and Rick Hoyt.