Mercedes-Benz workers in Vance, Ala., filed a petition with federal labor officials for a union election on April 11. This is a first for workers at that plant. Meanwhile, Volkswagen employees in Chattanooga, Tenn., will soon being voting in their own union election. After the UAW’s big wins for workers in Detroit, workers seem to have been motivated to improve their own working conditions, wages, benefits, and more. One Mercedes worker, Jeremy Kimbrell, who has worked for Mercedes for 24 years, said union authorization card signings took off in November, “It was like workers were starving for it.”
Read the full story by Stephen Bisaha for WPLN News, published April 14, 2024, here: https://wpln.org/post/seeking-to-defy-history-the-uaw-is-coming-closer-to-unionizing-in-the-south/
