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UAW in Bid to Organize Skilled Trades at VW Plant
The United Auto Workers union is making another attempt to organize hourly workers—this time 165 skilled trades employees—at Volkswagen AG’s assembly plant in Chattanooga, Tenn.
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The United Auto Workers union is making another attempt to organize hourly workers—this time 165 skilled trades employees—at Volkswagen AG’s assembly plant in Chattanooga, Tenn.
On Friday the union filed with the National Labor Relations Board to hold a vote in hopes of winning bargaining rights for the group.
The UAW lost a hotly contested election by 86 votes early last year to represent the facility’s entire 1,500-member hourly workers. But it set up a local near the facility anyway and has been trying to bolster support for another bid.
VW has allowed the union to hold informational meetings in the plant. It doesn’t oppose a union workforce there, but the company has indicated the UAW must win a conventional vote at the Chattanooga plant to do so.
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