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Staff at a Volkswagen (OTCPK:VWAGY) (OTCPK:VLKAF) manufacturing facility in Chattanooga, Tennessee, have voted to hitch the United Auto Staff, marking the union’s first profitable group marketing campaign exterior Detroit’s large three automakers.
73% of employees voted in favor of union illustration, whereas about 84% of the manufacturing facility’s 4,300 eligible employees participated within the election, in line with the Nationwide Labor Relations Board, which oversaw the voting.
UAW introduced the victory late Friday as votes continued to be tallied. “The end result is obvious: Volkswagen employees in Chattanooga are the primary Southern autoworkers exterior of the Huge Three to win their union,” the union stated.
Since UAW’s founding within the Thirties, employees at Detroit’s Huge Three, GM (GM), Ford (F), and Chrysler mother or father Stellantis (STLA), have represented its core membership.
UAW famous that within the wake of main contract wins it negotiated with the trio of automakers final yr, over 10,000 autoworkers have obtained membership amid ongoing public campaigns at Mercedes (OTCPK:MBGYY) and Toyota (TM) (OTCPK:TOYOF) factories.
Subsequent month, 5,000 employees at a Mercedes-Benz (OTCPK:MBGAF) plant in Vance, Alabama, are additionally anticipated to vote on whether or not to hitch the UAW.
