Volkswagen Group scandal is bigger than thought?

Will there be a Volkswagen Group after this is over? 

Via USA Today:

Volkswagen Group’s emissions scandal on Monday broadened to include a range of sport-utility vehicles — including luxury Audi and Porsche models — in a revelation that casts doubt on the company’s past statements about the situation.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency accused the company of installing so-called defeat-device software on SUVs and additional luxury cars not previously implicated in the scandal.
The allegation raises questions about the breadth of the German automaker’s response to the scandal since the EPA first accused the company of cheating emissions regulations on diesel cars on Sept. 18.
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Actual Good News: UAW Throws In The Towel At Volkswagen Plant In Tennessee

My guess is they didn't think they had a snowballs chance in hell with a re-vote.

Via ABC News:

The United Auto Workers dropped its appeal of a worker vote against unionizing at a Volkswagen plant in Tennessee, a move that the union said should put pressure on Republican politicians to quickly approve incentives the German automaker is seeking to expand its lone U.S. assembly plant.
The prolonged fight over labor issues at the Chattanooga facility appeared headed for a lengthy National Labor Relations Board appeal until the UAW announced an hour before a scheduled hearing that it was ending its challenge. The February vote went against the union 712-626.
Some GOP lawmakers had blamed the appeal for holding up expansion plans at the plant — and the UAW says that perceived obstacle is now out of the way.
"Now they need to step up and do what's right for VW and those workers over there, get the incentives without any strings attached," UAW Regional Director Gary Casteel said in a phone interview.
The appeal had focused on public statements from U.S. Sen. Bob Corker, Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam and other GOP officials that the union argued raised fears among workers about the plant's future if they voted to organize.

Heroes: Tennessee Volkswagen workers slap down the UAW...

Unbelievably, Volkswagen was supporting the UAW unionization drive. The reason is thought to be related to politics in Germany. Unions are very powerful in most European governments.  Volkswagen used to have a plant in the us near Pittsburgh. It closed in 1988 in large part because militant UAW workers called too many strikes and walkouts.

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) — Workers at a Volkswagen factory in Tennessee have voted against union representation, a devastating loss that derails the United Auto Workers union’s effort to organize Southern factories.
The 712-626 vote released late Friday stunned many labor experts who expected a UAW win because Volkswagen tacitly endorsed the union and even allowed organizers into the Chattanooga factory to make sales pitches.
The UAW for decades has tried without success to organize a foreign-owned plant in a region that’s wary of organized labor. The loss now makes it even harder for the union to recruit members at another Southern factory.