Source: The Tennessean
“Volkswagen workers in Chattanooga overwhelmingly voted to join the United Auto Workers late Friday, giving the union a decisive foothold in the historically anti-union South. Nearly three quarters of the workers voted to support the UAW, according to the final results from the National Labor Review Board. Of the 4,326 workers eligible to vote, more than 3,600 casts ballots over the three-day election. … The UAW had tried and failed to organize the VW plant twice before, once in 2013 and again in 2019. This election was part of a major campaign by the UAW to win new members in the South, a region that historically has been hostile to organized labor.” (04/19/24)