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Tennessee Volkswagen Workers Push For Union Election
Volkswagen workers at a Tennessee plant have signed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board to vote to join union.
The United Auto Workers announced the move on Monday, March 18.
It’s part of the union's efforts to organize workers at nonunion auto plants across the US.
The majority of Volkswagen employees endorsed the union by signing cards in just over three months.
Volkswagen's Chattanooga plant is the company's sole assembly facility in the US.
It shows the UAW's ongoing struggle to bring union representation to foreign-owned automakers within the country.
Previous efforts did not garner enough support to establish union representation at plants owned by foreign manufacturers like Volkswagen and Nissan.
However, the UAW remains persistent.
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