<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><br><div><div leftmargin="0" marginwidth="0" topmargin="0" marginheight="0" offset="0" style="font-family: Helvetica-Light; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); width: 100% !important;"><center><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" align="center" id="backgroundTable" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-collapse: collapse; height: 100% !important; width: 100% !important; line-height: 100% !important;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" valign="top" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" align="center" style="border: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-collapse: collapse;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" valign="top" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><table border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="border-collapse: collapse; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 10px 10px 40px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" width="600" style="border-collapse: collapse; padding-bottom: 0px;"><p align="center" style="margin: 1em 0px; color: rgb(80, 80, 80); font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; line-height: 0px;"><img src="https://actionnetwork.org/user_files/user_files/000/006/818/original/afl-cio-Logo-on-white-tag-2.png" alt="AFL-CIO" style="outline: none; text-decoration: none; width: 300px; height: 100px;"></p><hr></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" width="600" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><div style="color: rgb(80, 80, 80); font-family: Arial; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31px; text-align: left;"><br><div class="callout" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 20px solid rgb(241, 241, 241); display: block; padding: 20px;"><a target="_blank" href="http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/3QA/ni0YAA/t.275/7wfN1J11QCqJUHz2oSNcGw/h0/WQ-2BlIwq7W2eCmkkcwbDiBV0Frf8aO-2BhheoIczpshG3CHkbZDs0f6TVTt-2FzEyGF-2BqcpX-2BriYDL-2F9y-2FTYUGAQI1cwddLpuPxKDUFxpFxOrWzHwYHn-2Fpa1x5szDzoDQLlVMnwx1teTeKRREThsa1JagkS-2F3zq41IeE28pWy4xFnQmL0VqgpC7-2FJfeQqDpWtCceuX3Vs1G-2Fnk-2F3LXCmalQvptaDs7orj8zeW4De5NIWNBlKhVheC70NkM0Eith4eDBRghvcWuoGla7mV5CsAWHN8oDVRhO8HPnrMgIwh7pRf0yuQIhUKOegWnr0FqnrwwlKaW6BwQwJVeir6-2FhUO9rIm7t-2FT3UnaFJHL5w5QLTYq3ubPREYm7Oz-2F9V8NPdeKwAV5k2IEHtOOmglgdeC7xla39f7oj1Hp17rJzLXJ3ntr5moLvQY7uWP9Z1b4nBbriBWLXMNpeS4fGxRpHVsZI55WVeBCQoaylsJpTmaB66-2FSz9dIVrMjXFAL-2BCTWsVgf7YM66HZ0uvW5zVfjrMUq-2FzAuiDfqaWsZtAnOtpsYnFBMhI0-3D" page="" url="" style="font-size: 26px; line-height: 31px; text-decoration: underline; margin: 0px;">Tell Volkswagen to End Its Anti-Union Campaign at Its Chattanooga Plant</a><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><strong>The petition to Volkswagen CEO Matthias Müller says the following:</strong></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><em>End union-busting and abuse of workers in Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA.</em></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><a target="_blank" href="http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/3QA/ni0YAA/t.275/7wfN1J11QCqJUHz2oSNcGw/h1/WQ-2BlIwq7W2eCmkkcwbDiBV0Frf8aO-2BhheoIczpshG3CHkbZDs0f6TVTt-2FzEyGF-2BqcpX-2BriYDL-2F9y-2FTYUGAQI1cwddLpuPxKDUFxpFxOrWzHwYHn-2Fpa1x5szDzoDQLlVMFIoexJAxMkgfMe0A7PLItWG83991u6gvO6W3xDpO1Kf1qAP1hV7DRQiFX6yRnEQ0sogP8N91HUX6OuUNA-2BlrsH8e9eapGqWt1yUcam19T33yKLDiJBl2zhHIuZR4Fa0TOur-2F8VuQijle9ZYBzz-2Bw4z-2Bbiyfol-2B9iPNLlStciHrd2WKY1KnVuryGqmfN-2FFRK4lOvvsvsNmZCwefaykROICnCANVVxWmXHGuCDSdRLkUrjm38b-2B6Za2t4TJLmBGdzZmlg8qAxkWozDGWJZLDuMJL49akkpQZsw0V3f0L4QeN6SGuyBcx3gMNE7ZYZ3FwiDagHK3s-2FY0IACyackLbAP2gGnnKZ5N6gbAFIgNdCOgn2Jiu64cnlCpX-2FbLqwtmcLu0i5rO75avdxpWPcuBhIwpbFYldXNuAFLxy3PBmoLYaw-3D" page="" url="" style="display: block; background-color: rgb(15, 94, 101); color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 18px; width: 260px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none; border: 10px solid rgb(15, 94, 101);">Sign the Petition Immediately ›</a></p></div><p style="margin: 1em 0px;">Irene,</p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;">Working people from the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, will be headed to Germany for the company’s shareholder meeting this week.</p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;">They’ll have one simple message: Respect our right to bargain together for a better workplace.</p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;">Skilled trades workers voted in 2015 to come together in a union, so they could make a good living and support their families. But Volkswagen executives have refused to sit down and negotiate with workers since the vote, even ignoring a National Labor Relations Board ruling last year that ordered the company to the negotiating table.</p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><strong><a href="http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/3QA/ni0YAA/t.275/7wfN1J11QCqJUHz2oSNcGw/h2/WQ-2BlIwq7W2eCmkkcwbDiBV0Frf8aO-2BhheoIczpshG3CHkbZDs0f6TVTt-2FzEyGF-2BqcpX-2BriYDL-2F9y-2FTYUGAQI1cwddLpuPxKDUFxpFxOrWzHwYHn-2Fpa1x5szDzoDQLlVMdJEFrTJA7TbPxUF8oNIJUZXpEySMn0mFnV7PlmFVg5yCQegMq9yW-2F-2BAonB09XjOPPz5VTGAnOoOulu1uHQrREAp5xG2NjhRoLZrv-2F5URHbDsoOC-2BATB3Q0UsvC2OoJ4zTFz8rWre3tKhIr8-2BLRtD-2FOZRpQyP8mL-2FipkCmamZdtxZCdRpJa-2FOgSS18ZumH5PgP7LyRoe6kuBcUJO6BEFDScrWc6gX-2F4JGqCmA8DBCC9wBd4uV59F0dQfU48lufxlzI6vq5bOhSOUenBYYvE5BuCXNn6K7NvTru98I6VtUPS3yUUeB4w7aT5-2Bjpa6nbjSZw7efP28ExhavGRK1uH1TnvnJnll25hC3lOoFq53TCZhlbbF96W9Y08z7E9X-2BmWvHLp2EjAaBfb0sJLrF58Dwgh27U1IIgxWEjCl-2BpAOZxe4-3D" target="_blank">Sign the petition immediately to demand Volkswagen stop its anti-union campaign and we’ll make sure to include your signature in a petition at the Volkswagen shareholder meeting.</a></strong></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><strong></strong>Working people at the Chattanooga plant have been fighting nasty anti-union tactics for years now. In 2014, Tennessee politicians and out-of-state, right-wing interests ran a dirty campaign to get workers at the plant to vote against forming a union. Tennessee lawmakers did everything they could to silence the voice of workers, even going so far as to threaten to take away economic incentives from Volkswagen if they allowed people at the plant to join together in a union.</p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;">Volkswagen has continued with these deceitful tactics. The company’s refusal to negotiate with skilled trades workers is not only a reversal of its pre-election statements, but violates its own Declaration on Social Rights and Industrial Relationships.</p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;">But working people at the plant aren’t giving up. They’re taking a stand this week, and they need your support.</p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><strong><a href="http://click.actionnetwork.org/mpss/c/3QA/ni0YAA/t.275/7wfN1J11QCqJUHz2oSNcGw/h3/WQ-2BlIwq7W2eCmkkcwbDiBV0Frf8aO-2BhheoIczpshG3CHkbZDs0f6TVTt-2FzEyGF-2BqcpX-2BriYDL-2F9y-2FTYUGAQI1cwddLpuPxKDUFxpFxOrWzHwYHn-2Fpa1x5szDzoDQLlVMaOFU8FqY1KfTXHq64kxHpIP5qgbYTe2i-2FhgrU0Mcp9THwXMMtPun7ydlxIDi8jyoR6RC97R9PuOH8d77H0baenh7K5QhjNRNcmnAAHlmzjw8Qt87AXIGg3M-2FRTnmbn8-2Fe1aw03QOl7LuVenUa04CcxZOcXrO4SyAxT5QC9TEcZNFF-2BlefqBQ2IXrnj-2FPJqAP63Rt3a9cyYLdR9u5QUGmp3x7CRxVNOjge-2BN-2F9JjNTIqT-2B7dVPYE-2BASmxYVeCIeNc3cxWzw6MV-2BIXk2uv-2BoJt49Ec9nPzhdqa-2Btx-2B-2FceoXlG4nNKd5qMnJs4KSeKSym2-2BkbeW-2FSBHPCmAr2oJeBQ0PF9s4tIhftHi9BzebMutMfSvwFY-2BQTf6-2FKlpOvrImS2jwGBsgglP-2BoAjl3QTw-2B3-2B-2F-2F0tztM0ESNtAHlcH3eiHwM-3D" target="_blank">Add your name immediately to the petition to tell Volkswagen to end its deplorable anti-union campaign at its Chattanooga, Tennessee, plant.</a></strong></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><strong></strong>In Solidarity,</p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;">Tefere<br>------------------<br>Tefere Gebre<br>Executive Vice President, AFL-CIO</p><hr><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; 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