The union is on a mission to organize 13 non-unionized automakers in the U.S. after winning record contracts from General Motors, Ford and Stellantis following a simultaneous strike in 2023.
An employee does final inspections on a Mercedes-Benz C-Class at the Mercedes-Benz factory in Vance, Alabama, on June 8, 2017. Photo: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Imagesand Mercedes-Benz agreed to a vote in May over whether the automaker's sprawling factory in Tuscaloosa County, Ala., should beThe union is on a mission to organize 13 non-unionized automakers in the U.S. after winning record contracts from General Motors, Ford and Stellantis following afacilities in Vance, Ala.
The Volkswagen factory would be the only non-Detroit Three assembly plant in the U.S. to be unionized, while the Mercedes-Benz plant would become the second if the UAW prevails in Chattanooga."Year after year, the company says they've got record profits and sales, but our pay doesn't keep up. It's time to set things right. It's time that we had our voice heard," Derrick Todd, a worker at the plant since 2005, said in a recent statement.
The effort is "driven by misinformation and scare tactics," and "we do not need to pay a third party to tell us who can pick up a box or flip a switch," she said.Share on linkedin
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