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Workers astatine Mercedes-Benz's works in Vance, Alabama, extracurricular Tuscaloosa will ballot adjacent period connected whether to subordinate nan United Auto Workers labour union.
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) connected Thursday said nan 5,000 eligible workers astatine nan mill will beryllium capable to formed their ballots from May 13-17.
Some 5,000 workers astatine nan Mercedes-Benz successful Vance, Alabama, are group to ballot adjacent period connected whether to unionize. (Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images / Getty Images)
| MBGAF | MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP AG | 79.24 | -0.17 | -0.21% |
The announcement comes arsenic voting is underway astatine Volkswagen's only works successful nan U.S., wherever workers are besides weighing practice from nan UAW arsenic nan national makes a push for description pursuing its successful onslaught against Detroit's Big Three automakers past year.
| VWAGY | VOLKSWAGEN AG | 15.03 | +0.03 | +0.20% |
| F | FORD MOTOR CO. | 12.07 | +0.04 | +0.33% |
| GM | GENERAL MOTORS CO. | 42.45 | -0.01 | -0.04% |
| STLA | STELLANTIS NV | 25.76 | -0.02 | -0.08% |
Voting began Wednesday for nan 4,100 hourly labor astatine Volkswagen's mill successful Chattanooga, Tennessee, and will widen done Friday.
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Winning either ballot would beryllium a important milestone for nan union.
The UAW has tried and grounded for years to shape nonunion U.S. auto factories, astir of them built by Asian and European automakers successful Southern states. But aft winning grounds contracts pinch Ford, General Motors and Stellantis successful nan fall, nan UAW is emotion a renewed momentum.
Shawn Fain, president of nan United Auto Workers union, is starring a wide push to unionize autoworkers successful nan South. (Ting Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images / Getty Images)
UAW President Shawn Fain vowed nan national would "pull retired each nan stops" to shape workers astatine non-union automakers like Volkswagen, Tesla, Toyota, Honda, Mercedes and others aft securing nan wins successful Detroit.
The national is promising amended wages and moving conditions for early members, but is facing pushback from authorities leaders who pass that unionization threatens jobs.
The time earlier voting began astatine VW's Chattanooga plant, nan Republican governors of Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas issued a associated connection successful guidance to nan UAW's unionization push into nan South.
"Unionization would surely put our states’ jobs successful jeopardy. In fact, successful this year already, each of nan UAW automakers person announced layoffs," nan governors' connection said.
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"In America, we respect our workforce, and we do not request to salary a 3rd statement to show america who tin prime up a container aliases flip a switch. No 1 wants to perceive this, but it’s nan disfigured reality," nan connection continued. "We’ve seen it play retired this measurement each azygous clip a overseas automaker works has been unionized; not 1 of those plants remains successful operation."
FOX Business' Eric Revell and Reuters contributed to this report.
