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From Monday through Friday, around 5,200 employees of Mercedes-Benz in Alabama will vote on whether to join the United Auto Workers —which has set its sights on the U.S. South after contract wins at the industry's 'Big Three' in Michigan last year. While Republican leaders in the state, including Gov.
It's time for everybody to stand up and have a voice and we need to end the Alabama discount,' he said, using an organizer term to highlight how workers in the state have subpar wages and benefits compared to their peers elsewhere in the country. Webster also called out Mercedes' efforts to convince workers in Alabama not to vote in favor of joining the UAW—which has filed multiple union-busting complaints against the company with the National Labor Relations Board.
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