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Michael Sainato

Mercedes-Benz workers in Alabama file for union election

large arm-like yellow metal machines lined up in a row
An electric vehicle battery tray assembly line at a battery factory for the Mercedes-Benz plant in Alabama. Photograph: Elijah Nouvelage/Reuters

Mercedes-Benz workers in Vance, Alabama, have voted to hold an election to join the United Auto Workers (UAW), the second car plant in a southern state to pass such a vote in the last month.

A supermajority of more than 5,000 workers at the plant have asked the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to organize an election. Volkswagen employees in Tennessee made the same decision last month and will vote on whether to join the UAW later this month.

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