UAW wins historic victory in U.S. South with vote at VW plant
Source: Reuters
BY BERNIE WOODALL
The United Auto Workers union won its first organizing vote at a foreign-owned auto assembly plant in the U.S. South on Friday, in a groundbreaking victory after decades of failed attempts.
About 71 percent of skilled trades workers who cast ballots at Volkswagen AG's (VOWG_p.DE) factory in Chattanooga, Tennessee voted to join the UAW, according to the company and the union.
The skilled trades workers account for about 11 percent of the 1,450 hourly employees at the plant.
If the UAW victory, as expected, survives an appeal by Volkswagen to the National Labor Relations Board, the 164 skilled trades workers will be the first foreign-owned auto assembly plant workers to gain collective bargaining rights in the southern United States.
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Agnosticsherbet
(11,619 posts)Photographer
(1,142 posts)A blue dot in a red state.
lark
(23,102 posts)Victory is sweet.
navarth
(5,927 posts)And, Omaha, may I take this opportunity to once more pay you my most sincere respects? As always, I send you courage, strength and comfort. You are one of the best here. Live long and prosper my friend.
Omaha Steve
(99,635 posts)I was so much better before I got FTD. Many DUers don't understand FTD. I like to think I'm raising awareness.
OS
mountain grammy
(26,621 posts)America works best when we say: UNION YES!
Duppers
(28,120 posts)To hell with the right to work laws in Tennessee.
fasttense
(17,301 posts)So, they are more aptly called the right to work for slave wages laws. Or the right to make millions off the backs of the working class laws or the millionaire give away laws. Whatever you call them, they are ensuring the continued economic suppression of Tennessee.
Populist_Prole
(5,364 posts)"Right to Work" sounds so smarmily specious anyway. Anybody but a total tool knows "Right to Work" = Anti-Labor.
Cons pull that crap all the time; putting thin layers of tasty sounding icing over balls of shit. Note their astroturf groups/pacs/blocs with flag waving memes in their names:
"Enterprise"
"Freedom"
"Patriot"
"Heritage"
"Prosperity"
Blah blah blah.
Every last one of them lipstick on a pig for groups that lobby to put the 99 percent in serfdom.
hedda_foil
(16,374 posts)Populist_Prole
(5,364 posts)The cons have knoda' painted themselves into a corner of self caricature. When they say "freedom" or "liberty" you know they are talking about money...."freedom" for "free enterprise" for busniness to do whatever the hell it wants.
Look no further.
wolfie001
(2,240 posts)Great news!!
Loki
(3,825 posts)My dad was UAW, Chevrolet Plant, Leeds, Missouri. I'm union proud!