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After union victory at Tennessee auto plant, organizers are eyeing SC

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A Volkswagon plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, voted to join the United Auto Workers union on Friday, with 73% of workers voting to unionize. Experts say there’s potential for a similar election to be held in South Carolina.

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UAW eyeing further southern expansion after win at Volkswagen's Tennessee plant

The United Auto Workers (UAW) has notched a breakthrough win for southern expansion following its successful strike against Detroit's Big Three automakers last year.Last week, the workers at Volkswagen's factory in Chattanooga, Tennessee, voted 73% in favor of joining the UAW, marking the union's first victory in a renewed push to organize nonunion plants – most of which are owned by European and Asian automakers in the South.The UAW is feeling …

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Tennessee auto workers make history by voting yes to unionize : Peoples Dispatch

Workers at the Volkswagen factory in Chattanooga made history on April 19 when, after tireless organizing in one of the states most hostile to unions in the country, workers voted yes to unionize. Chattanooga Volkswagen workers thus made Volkswagen the first nonunion automaker to become unionized in the US since 1941. The unionization drive won by a landslide, with 2,628 voting in favor and 985 voting against. The election in many ways was a lit…

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UAW Continues Union Push in the South after Victory in Tennessee

The vote by Volkswagen workers in Tennessee to become United Auto Workers members hands the union its first win in a campaign to unionize factories outside of the Detroit Three

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