Mercedes-Benz workers in Alabama to vote on joining UAW

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Mercedes-Benz workers in Alabama to vote on joining UAW

VANCE, Ala.—Some 5,200 Mercedes-Benz workers in its Vance, Ala., factory complex will vote soon on whether to join the United Auto Workers, in the latest manifestation of the union’s strategy to break foreign “transplant” auto firms’ stranglehold on Southern workers. The Alabama vote will follow the first move in that strategy: A vote April 17-19 at the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tenn., which employs 4,000. There, the union has taken the u…