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Related: About this forumThis Is The Biggest Win For Workers In Decades - More Perfect Union
Over 4,000 Volkswagen workers in Tennessee just joined the UAW. Theyre the first American workers to win a union at a non-union car company in decades. This historic victory will change the auto industry, and the future of American labor.
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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.
Read more: https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2024/04/19/tennessee-workers-vote-to-join-uaw-union/73382830007/
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This Is The Biggest Win For Workers In Decades - More Perfect Union (Original Post)
TexasTowelie
Apr 19
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flashman13
(673 posts)1. It is a big deal to organize a shop in the deep south. I would like to believe this will open the door
to more plants organizing. Workers have been screwed long enough. Unionizing is the best way to stop that. The times they are a changing.
whathehell
(29,090 posts)2. Yes!!
Bravo!!
flying rabbit
(4,636 posts)3. Whooooo!
calimary
(81,441 posts)4. TERRIFIC News!
More, please!