The Volkswagen factory in Chattanooga, Tennessee, is the only one outside of China which is not represented at the automobile company’s global works council. The United Auto Workers have thus unveiled plans for a works council, and their proposals were more or less already known. But the UAW’s monopoly on collective bargaining has provoked a response from the rival organisation which claims to represent those employees not represented by the trade union.
On Friday 8 May, the UAW unveiled its plans for a works council at the Volkswagen factory in Chattanooga, with a view to the future negotiations which are set to take place regarding the establishment of this body. With the trade union failing to establish themselves within the company — following an election which was subject to a “firestorm of interference” —, the company’s management, hoping for an interlocutor to represent the employees, is striving to set up a German-style works...
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