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/
Drum
(9,196 posts)🙌👏💪
wolfie001
(2,264 posts)So Sweet! Hopefully, Alabama will be next!
peacebuzzard
(5,181 posts)I may stand corrected as far as the type of auto plant but in this area, previous auto workers have shot down the unions multiple times.
This is great news!!!! A first for this red part of the state! Hooray!!!!
This could be the start of something..... Unbelievable. Hooray y'all!
ForgoTheConsequence
(4,869 posts)Imallin4Joe
(758 posts)Union Yes!!!
This is why every southern Rethug Governor spoke out against unions. To the GOP, FUCK YOU ALL.
Like George Carlin once said, up your ass with a broomstick.
Union Yes!!
niyad
(113,532 posts)PatrickforB
(14,586 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,403 posts)mountain grammy
(26,644 posts): to the organizers!