According to foreign media reports, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) said on April 18 that workers at Mercedes-Benz’s Vance plant in Alabama would vote from May 13 to May 17 to decide whether to join the United Auto Workers (UAW).
UAW is again trying to include factory workers from foreign carmakers in the United States, and winning the vote of workers at the Mercedes-Benz Tuscaloosa plant would be a major victory for UAW.
Earlier this month, workers at the Mercedes-Benz factory submitted a vote to NLRB to hold a vote aimed at joining the UAW.
Photo: Mercedes-Benz UAW said earlier this month that 5200 eligible Mercedes-Benz workers at the plant and nearby Woodstock Alabama had signed application cards to join the union.
NLRB will start counting votes at around 10:45 et on May 17, and the results are expected to be announced on the same day.
Earlier this year, UAW signed record new contracts with the big three Detroit automakers (GM, Ford and Stellantis), raising calls for non-union carmakers to be organized.
Before the Mercedes-Benz vote, a number of non-union car manufacturing plants owned by foreign car companies such as Hyundai and Toyota had been organizing for months.
This week workers at Volkswagen’s Chattanooga plant in Chattanooga Tennessee will vote on the decision to join the union.
UAW organizers lost votes at the plant twice, when UAW narrowly failed to win a majority in 2014 and 2019.
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