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VW Appeals Effort to Block UAW Skilled Trades Vote
Volkswagen AG says it will appeal a decision by the National Labor Relations Board to uphold the right of about 160 skilled trades workers at the carmaker’s factory in Chattanooga, Tenn., to be represented by the United Auto Workers union.
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Volkswagen AG says it will appeal a decision by the National Labor Relations Board to uphold the right of about 160 skilled trades workers at the carmaker’s factory in Chattanooga, Tenn., to be represented by the United Auto Workers union.
The employees agreed last December by a 71% margin to join the union. The plant has about 1,400 hourly workers.
The UAW narrowly lost a contentious vote two years ago to organize the entire facility. VW favors creating a works council at Chattanooga similar to those in Germany. But that is possible in the U.S. only if a union represents the plant’s entire hourly workforce.
VW contends that unionizing only a small portion of the plant disrupts its “one team” approach to its hourly workers. The company says it filed an appeal before a federal court of appeals because it is “disappointed that the NLRB declined to fully evaluate this important question."
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