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VW Workers to Vote on Unionization at Chattanooga Plant
Some 1,700 hourly workers at Volkswagen AG’s huge assembly plant in Chattanooga, Tenn., will vote on June 12-14 whether to unionize.
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Some 1,700 hourly workers at Volkswagen AG’s huge assembly plant in Chattanooga, Tenn., will vote on June 12-14 whether to unionize.
Workers narrowly rejected a proposal by the United Auto Workers union to represent them in a hotly contested vote in 2014. The balloting was opposed by a right-to-work group, the state’s governor and one of its U.S. Senators.
A year later, a group of 160 skilled trade maintenance workers voted to recognize the UAW. But Volkswagen, which has been otherwise neutral about unionization, objected to the outcome. The company complained that having a small number of union workers amid a large group of nonunion workers would be disruptive.
VW suggested the UAW conduct a new plantwide vote. The union relaunched its effort in April.
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