Workers at Volkswagen's Chattanooga, Tennessee, assembly plant are seeking an election to unionize, setting up a critical test for UAW President Shawn Fain's campaign to expand the union to foreign-owned automakers.
plant have signed union cards in about three months. The workers have filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board seeking a vote to join the union. It would be the third time in ten years that the UAW has sought to represent VW Chattanooga workers.
Winning a vote to organize the VW plant would be a significant milestone for the UAW in an election year where both U.S.and his presumptive Republican rival Donald Trump are aggressively courting votes from UAW members in Michigan and other industrial swing states. Two attempts to organize VW's plant in Chattanooga narrowly failed. In 2019, VW workers at the plant rejected union representation in an 833-776 vote. Earlier efforts to organizeEarlier this month, the UAW said that more than 30% of workers at a Toyota factory in Missouri are seeking to join the union.
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