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VW Switches Sides On A Tennessee Union

May 2, 2016

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Two years ago, Volkswagen did something almost unthinkable for a major manufacturing company in the U.S., when it supported the efforts of the United Auto Workers to organize a union at its assembly plant in Chattanooga, but the union lost the vote. Now the issue has come up again, and a subset of Chattanooga VW employees – the maintenance workers, whose job includes tending to the robots – has voted to unionize. Volkswagen, which is under new top management following the emissions cheating scandal, has drawn the ire of the UAW by challenging that vote in federal court. The company maintains that it respects the right of the workers to vote on unionization, but it wants a single vote for the entire work force.

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