I’d like to change some money past present future essay VW executives in the United States have said the workerswill have the final decision on whether to choose the UAW, butthey have repeatedly focused on the formal voting process. DonJackson, an industry consultant who was VW’s U.S. manufacturingchief until last June, said he expects VW would only accept theunion after a confidential ballot vote by the Tennessee plant’sworkers.