I’m sure you remember last year’s coverage of the UAW’s attempt at organizing all workers at Volkswagen’s Chattanooga, Tennessee, facility. Had VW workers voted to unionize, it would have been the first union in a southern automaker and perhaps open the door for the UAW to organize the foreign manufacturers in the South the way…

Remember last year when the United Autoworkers Union tried to organize the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee? Remember how the UAW failed to win the secret ballot election to represent the VW workers, despite the company welcoming the union at the plant? Well, the UAW was down, but not out. VW and the UAW are…

The United Autoworkers Union lost a close, extremely important election at the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee a few months ago. Had the UAW won, its victory would have marked the first time a union represents employees of an auto manufacturer in the southern United States. Riding the momentum from the close election, 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…