CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — Employees at a Volkswagen factory in Chattanooga, Tennessee, extremely voted to signupwith the United Auto Workers union Friday in a historical veryfirst test of the UAW’s restored effort to arrange nonunion factories.
The union injury up getting 2,628 votes, or 73% of the tallies cast, compared with just 985 who voted no in an election run by the National Labor Relations Board.
Both sides have 5 service days to file objections to the election, the NLRB stated. If there are none, the election will be licensed and VW and the union should “begin bargaining in excellent faith.”
President Joe Biden, who backed the UAW and won its recommendation, stated the union’s win follows significant union gains throughout the nation consistingof stars, port employees, Teamsters members, authors and health care employees.
“Together, these union wins have assisted raise earnings and show when onceagain that the middle-class constructed America and that unions are still structure and broadening the middle class for all employees,” he stated in a declaration late Friday.
Twice in current years, employees at the Chattanooga plant have turneddown union subscription in plantwide votes. Most justrecently, they handed the UAW a narrow defeat in 2019 as federal districtattorneys were breaking up a bribery-and-embezzlement scandal at the union.
But this time, they voted convincingly for the UAW, which is operating under brand-new management straight chosen by members for the veryfirst time and basking in a effective conflict with Detroit’s significant carmanufacturers.
The union’s pugnacious brand-new president, Shawn Fain, was chose on a platform of cleansing up after the scandal and turning more confrontational with carmanufacturers. An pushed Fain, backed by Biden, led the union in a series of strikes last fall versus Detroit’s carmanufacturers that resulted in financiallyrewarding brand-new agreements.
The brand-new agreements raised union earnings by a considerable one-third, equipping Fain and his organizers with luring brand-new uses to present to employees at Volkswage