VW workers to unionize in US South after groundbreaking vote

Source: Agence France-Presse

VW workers to unionize in US South after groundbreaking vote
AFP
December 6, 2015, 5:54 am

Detroit (AFP) - Employees at a Volkswagen plant in the state of Tennessee decided to organize for the first time since foreign automakers set up shop in the business-friendly South, which is known for its low rate of unionization.

The United Auto Workers won a breakthrough representation election Friday at the Volkswagen AG plant in Chattanooga.

Skilled tradeworkers voted to join UAW, cracking the wall of non-union assembly plants belonging to foreign carmakers in the region.

The National Labor Relations Board, which supervised the process, said 71 percent of employees voted to join during the two-day election, which began Thursday.


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