Workers at a Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga voted overwhelmingly in favor of joining the UAW union.
Two previous attempts to join the union in the past few years had been soundly defeated. Friday’s vote, organized by the National Labor Relations Board, saw 73%, 2,628 people, vote in favor. Voter turnout was 83.5%.
The vote was seen by many as the first major test of the UAW union’s renewed efforts to unionize factories without unions, the“I think it’s the reality of where we are and the times that we’re in,” UAW president Shawn Fain said after the result. “Workers are fed up in being left behind.” “This gives workers everywhere else the indication that it’s OK,” he added. “All we’ve heard for years is we can’t win here, you can’t do this in the South, and you can.”had voiced support for the unionization drive beforehand and congratulated them afterward on the successful vote.
“Together, these union wins have helped raise wages and demonstrate once again that the middle-class built America and that unions are still building and expanding the middle class for all workers,” he said in aPrior to the vote, six Republican governors, Govs.
“The reality is companies have choices when it comes to where to invest and bring jobs and opportunity,” the statement read. “In America, we respect our workforce and we do not need to pay a third party to tell us who can pick up a box or flip a switch. No one wants to hear this, but it’s the ugly reality. We’ve seen it play out this way every single time a foreign automaker plant has been unionized; not one of those plants remains in operation.
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