Less than 6 months after failing to represent all workers at Volkswagen’s Chattanooga plant, Tennessee, the United Auto Workers (UAW) have recently gotten the company’s American plant to create a unit to which voluntary employees will take part and which will give the group’s American workers a voice in Volkswagen’s global works council, where the US was the only country that wasn’t represented.
Even though workers at Volkswagen’s Chattanooga plant, Tennessee, rejected the UAW in February (see article No. 8181), the union has just set up a unit in the company. “Local 42 will represent any interested employees who join the local as members. No employees will be required to join,” the UAW announced. This section “offers workers the opportunity for a voice in the workplace through the German automaker’s “works council” approach,” the union is hoping. It would be the first of this kind...
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