About 56 percent of the Mercedes workers who voted rejected the U.A.W.
In April, workers at a Volkswagen plant in Tennessee voted to join the union, the first large nonunion auto plant in the South to do so.
I don’t think they’re going to stop just because they lost here.”Since its founding in 1935, the U.A.W.
has almost exclusively represented workers employed by the three Michigan-based automakers: General Motors, Ford Motor, and Chrysler, now part of Stellantis.
And it has long struggled to make headway at plants owned by foreign manufacturers, especially in Southern states where anti-union sentiment runs deep.
Persons:
Weeks, ”, Arthur Wheaton
Organizations:
Mercedes, Benz, United Automobile Workers, Volkswagen, Daimler Truck, Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations, General Motors, Ford Motor, Chrysler
Locations:
Alabama, Tennessee, North Carolina, Michigan, Stellantis, Southern