The United Auto Workers’ union has permanently given up the fight at Volkswagen’s Chattanooga plant. The union claims the limitations of American labor law are making it useless to launch a procedure with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) regarding the representation of Chattanooga workers. And it also seems that tax exemptions had an impact.
Priority given to employment. On April 21, just before the start of a hearing on the subject before the NLRB, the UAW put an end to the procedure launched with Tennessee’s elected officials, accused of having disrupted the election they were hoping would let them into Volkswagen’s plant in the State two months ago (see article No. 8181). The union is “ready to put February’s tainted election in the rearview mirror and instead focus on advocating for new jobs and economic investment in...
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