The United Autoworkers Union will likely not seek another NLRB election in the South until after renegotiating the 2015 contracts for the Big Three automakers in Detroit. After those negotiations end, UAW will probably be in a better position to have unorganized southern autoworkers buy what the union is selling. The success of the UAW…

Although the union election at Volkswagen in Tennessee has captured the headlines, the UAW has simultaneously been targeting the Mercedes-Benz and Nissan factories in Alabama and Mississippi, respectively. The union filed unfair labor practice charges against Mercedes alleging that union organizers were not allowed inside the plant despite its parent company Daimler AG’s long-held policy…