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Michael Sainato

UAW secures historic union election win at Tennessee Volkswagen plant

a row of cars in front of a large building and a blue sky
The Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee on 18 April 2024. Photograph: Nora Eckert/Reuters

Volkswagen workers at the carmaker’s Chattanooga plant in Tennessee have voted to unionize with the United Auto Workers, a historic victory for the union and the labor movement’s efforts to expand to the southern United States.

The vote was the first union election to be held as part of the UAW’s ambitious organizing drive aimed at unionizing 150,000 workers at non-union auto plants around the US.

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