UAW’s next big Southern test after winning Tennessee union vote is Alabama | #elections | #alabama
The United Auto Workers’ overwhelming election victory at a Volkswagen plant in Tennessee is giving the union hope that it can make broader inroads in the South, the least unionized part of the country. The UAW won a stunning 73% of the vote at VW after losing elections in 2014 and 2019. It was the union’s first […]
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UAW Membership Vote OK’d For Two Mercedes-Benz Plants In Alabama | #elections | #alabama
Non-union workers at Mercedes-Benz plants in Vance (pictured) and Woodtock, Alabama will vote on UAW … [+] membership in May. (Photo by: Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) Universal Images Group via Getty Images The UAW’s chances of organizing a non-union, foreign-owned U.S. plant just doubled. As workers at a Volkswagen auto plant in […]
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Autoworkers at Alabama’s Mercedes-Benz Plant File for a Union Election | #elections | #alabama
Mercedes-Benz workers in Vance, Alabama, will vote on whether to join the United Auto Workers (UAW). On Friday, the UAW filed for an election to represent all 5,200 of the plant’s hourly employees, after the union said a supermajority of workers at the company’s mammoth plant signed union cards in three months. Jeremy Kimbrell, a […]
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