United States:  United Steelworkers union marks major breakthrough at the Blue Bird electric school bus plant in the Southern state of Georgia

Blue Bird, which builds electric school buses in Fort Valley, Georgia has become the first significant group (1,400 employees) to join the United Steelworkers union (USW). On 12 May workers in a factory located in a traditionally union-hostile Southern US state overwhelmingly voted in favour (697 vs 435) of joining the trade union. USW District 9 Director Dan Flippo (Director in seven southern states) said, “For too long corporations cynically viewed the South as a place where they could suppre