The filing comes after a “supermajority of Volkswagen workers have signed union cards in just 100 days,” the UAW said.
Volkswagen workers at a plant in Tennessee have filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board for a vote to join the United Auto Workers.
The filing comes after a"supermajority of Volkswagen workers have signed union cards in just 100 days," the union said – marking a major milestone in the labor group'sThe UAW has previously failed to organize foreign-based automakers in the U.S. Most recently, plants with Volkswagen and Nissan fell short of the support needed to unionize. In 2019, VW workers at the Chattanooga, Tennessee, plant rejected union representation in an 833-776 vote.
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