Employees at a Volkswagen factory in Chattanooga,Tennessee, overwhelmingly voted to join the United Auto Workers unionFriday in a historic first test of the UAW’s renewed effort to organizenonunion factories.
By Kristin M. Hall and Tom Krisher, Associated PressVolkswagen automobile plant employee Robert Crump, left, hi-fives fellow employee Kelvin Allen as they watch the results of a UAW union vote, late Friday, April 19, 2024, in Chattanooga, Tenn.
President Joe Biden, who backed the UAW and won its endorsement, said the union’s win follows major union gains across the country including actors, port workers, Teamsters members, writers and health care workers. The union’s pugnacious new president, Shawn Fain, was elected on a platform of cleaning up after the scandal and turning more confrontational with automakers. An emboldened Fain, backed by Biden, led the union in a series of strikes last fall against Detroit’s automakers that resulted in lucrative new contracts.
“Right now we have no say,” said Holloway, who has worked at the plant for 13 years and was there for the union’s previous losses. “It’s like our opinions don’t matter.” But the overwhelming win is a warning to nonunion manufacturers, said Marick Masters, a business professor at Wayne State University in Detroit who studies the union.
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