The UAW was supposed to win the election with flying colors. Never had a company’s management been so supportive of a union organizing its plant. And yet, on February 14, the results hit like a ton of bricks, with 626 workers voting in favor of the union and 712 voting against. In an article published on February 15 in the rather left-wing activist monthly paper, In these times wonders about the reasons for this setback and gives a series of factors that put into question external interference, mostly from politicians, but mostly the UAW’s “negligence.”
Last Friday, hourly workers at VW’s Chattanooga plant voted for or against the United Auto Workers (UAW). With the factory’s management committing itself, in a 22-page neutrality agreement, not to interfering in the union election [the principle of neutrality isn’t a legal right in the US], the union was expecting a full victory it would have used as a precedent for two major challenges it is facing: organizing the first plant of a non-American carmaker and organizing a factory in a Southern ri
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