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of United Auto Workers Union (UAW) Workers at the Volkswagen assembly plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, will vote to unionize, the union announced Monday, after the UAW secured a historic contract with workers at the Big Three automakers in Detroit last year. .
The UAW announced that the majority of eligible Volkswagen workers have signed union cards to call an election at the Chattanooga plant. The facility is Volkswagen’s only assembly plant in the United States, with approximately 4,100 employees building the Atlas and his ID.4. The union added that the plant is “the only Volkswagen plant in the world without employee representation.”
Pending unionization vote follows UAW President Sean Fein’s record-setting move to organize workers at non-union automakers including Volkswagen, Tesla, Toyota, Honda and Mercedes. The move came after the union vowed to “do everything in its power” to Ford, GM and Stellantis contracts for UAW workers.
Encouraged by that success, Fein announced that the entire U.S. non-union auto assembly sector of 13 automakers would be created after previous UAW efforts to organize non-union automakers failed in recent years. We started our first campaign to organize.including VW’s Chattanooga plant.
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The UAW announced that auto assembly workers at Volkswagen’s Chattanooga plant will vote on unionization. (Marc Elias/via Bloomberg/Getty Images)
In 2019, workers at the VW factory rejected union representation by a vote of 833 to 776.Past votes to organize Nissan Car factory It also failed by wide margins in Mississippi and Tennessee.
| ticker | safety | last | change | change % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Voisy | Volkswagen AG | 14.725 | +0.36 | +2.54% |
“We respect the democratic process and the right of our employees to decide who should represent their interests,” Volkswagen said in a statement to FOX Business. We fully support them and will ensure that all team members can vote in privacy on this important decision.” . ”
“The election schedule will be determined by the NLRB. Volkswagen is proud of Chattanooga’s working environment, which provides some of the best-paying jobs in the region,” the Volkswagen statement continued.
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After winning record contracts for UAW members at the Big Three, UAW President Sean Fein began pushing for the unionization of all nonunion auto assembly workers in the United States. (Kevin Dietch/Getty Images)
Volkswagen announced in November that it would increase employee salaries. factory workers in tennessee The 11% increase comes in addition to several other foreign automakers that announced significant pay and compensation improvements following the UAW’s agreements with three major automakers.
| ticker | safety | last | change | change % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| F | ford motor corporation | 12.06 | -0.02 | -0.17% |
| GM | general motors company | 40.73 | +0.05 | +0.12% |
| STLA | Stellantis NV | 28.50 | +1.00 | +3.64% |
| TM | Toyota Motor Corporation | 234.62 | +3.65 | +1.58% |
| TSLA | Tesla Inc. | 163.57 | +1.07 | +0.66% |
It remains to be seen whether these wage and benefit increases will be enough to fend off the UAW’s unionization push. Automobile manufacturers that are not union members.
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Volkswagen announced last year that it would give raises to autoworkers at its Tennessee plant. (Friso Gentsch/Photo Alliance/Getty Images)
The union said earlier this month that more than 30% of workers at one workplace Toyota plant in Missouri are seeking to unionize, and last month revealed that a majority of hourly workers at a Mercedes-Benz plant in Alabama had signed union recognition cards.
Reuters contributed to this report.
