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Union To Be Put in Place In Tennessee Auto Plant After All
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July 11, 2014 | U.S. LABOR | The was announced [in Chattanooga, Tenn.] today by the United Auto Workers union and Volkswagen employees that the UAW will begin representing workers at the plant…The union has been negotiating with Volkswagen since it narrowly lost a representation vote last February by 712-626. Since the vote was influenced by millions of dollars of outside money from rightwing groups and by threats from GOP politicians, the union filed a challenge to the election with the NLRB. The union dropped the challenge after receiving word from Volkswagen that the company was willing to work out a way to achieve union representation for the workers. Volkswagen workers in the home country, Germany, have long been unionized… Full story here.
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