After Cottondale, Alabama, the United Auto Workers have organized another factory of the French auto supplier, Faurecia, in the south of the US: Louisville, Kentucky, where collecting cards was enough to unionize the plant. But the UAW is still absent from most auto plants in the region and was recently rejected in another Faurecia plant. (Ref. 130668)
Well underway with Volkswagen’s plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee (see article No. 130539), the UAW keeps growing in the south of the US – one of the union’s primary objectives to answer the member hemorrhage in the historical automotive birthplace (see article No. 110488) –, now successfully organizing another workshop of the European multinational. “A majority of workers at automotive supplier Faurecia Interior Systems Inc. have decided today to join the UAW,” the union announced after...
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