The 1,600 workers at Volkswagen’s Chattanooga plant in the south of the US are going to vote, on February 12-14, on whether they wish to be represented by the union. If they vote yes, Volkswagen’s US management and the UAW will be able to set up a German-style works’ council, a first in the country.
For several years, UAW leader Bob King has been trying to enter the sites of foreign carmakers established, precisely, in the south of the US – in right-to-work states hostile to unions. He thought he’d succeeded at VW’s Chattanooga plant when he announced, in September (see article No. 130539), that a majority if workers had signed card checks, leading to automatic recognition for the union without having to go through a vote – a procedure unions deem as more unpredictable. Victory was shor
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