Tennessee workers at VW plant vote to unionize with UAW

Source: Nashville Tennessean

Volkswagen workers in Chattanooga overwhelming voted to join the United Auto Workers late Friday, giving the union a decisive foothold in the historically anti-union South.

By 10:09 p.m. ET, more than half the 4,300 eligible workers had voted to join the union, according to UAW's posted count. The official results have yet to be tallied by the National Labor Review Board but the union held a strong majority of more than 70% throughout the night.

As the votes were counted Friday night, first a trickle — and later, a wave — of bold, red T-shirts with white lettering peppered the union hall Friday evening at I.B.E.W. Local 175.

Joseph McMullen walked into the hall around 9 p.m. expecting many of his Volkswagen peers to have voted to establish a union. But he wasn't prepared for the overwhelming pro-union support displayed on a projection screen.

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