Union supporters have renewed hopes of organizing in the South after a breakthrough UAW vote.
The South has historically been a no-go zone for unions at major private companies due to political, legal, cultural and business opposition.UAW president Shawn Fain said the status quo is changing after Volkswagen workers in Chattanooga, Tennessee , voted 73% against 27% to become the"Many of the talking heads and the pundits have said to me repeatedly ... you can't win in the South," Fain said to a boisterous crowd of supporters at a victory party Friday night.
"The UAW"s really showing — building off the momentum from their strike and the wins against the Big Three — that they're serious about organizing the non-union South," Columbia University public affairs professor Alexander Hertel-Fernandez tells Axios. is the Mercedes-Benz plant in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, where the UAW has secured a vote from May 13-17 after a majority of workers at the plant signed unionization cards.
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