MICKEY KAUS: VW IS SUCCEEDING SO THE UAW MUST DESTROY IT. “It’s On: An unannounced, semi-stealthy UAW effort to collect signature cards from workers at Volkswagen’s Chattanooga factory comes to light. … The timing is inauspicious, TTAC notes, because sales of VW’s America-sized nonunion Passat are booming and the company just announced plans to hire 800 more workers. But the UAW has little choice but to try, because sales of VW’s America-sized nonunion Passat are booming and the company has plans to hire more workers. . . . Could Obama intervene somehow to save the UAW? I don’t quite see how, but perhaps I lack imagination.”