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New York (AFP) - Workers at Mercedes-Benz's Alabama facilities have rejected a union drive in a setback to the United Auto Workers' ambitious campaign to organize the American South, according to results released Friday by US authorities. A preliminary tally had 2,642 voting against unionization and 2,045 in favor, a margin of 56 to 44 percent, according to the National Labor Relations Board, which oversaw a five-day vote at the Mercedes auto manufacturing plant and battery complex near Tuscaloosa. Led by President Shawn Fain, the UAW had high hopes for a second victory after winning an April ...
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New York (AFP) - The US auto workers union's drive to organize auto plants in the southern United States faces a second test this week at Mercedes-Benz in Alabama following a triumph last month. Some 5,200 workers at the Mercedes auto manufacturing plant and battery complex near Tuscaloosa, Alabama will decide whether to join the United Auto Workers in a federally-administered election that runs from Monday through Friday. The election comes on the heels of the UAW's win on April 19 at Volkswagen's Chattanooga, Tennessee plant in the first successful UAW drive at a foreign-owned auto plant in ...
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German trade union leaders on Wednesday called for social justice and reforms to the strict constitutional debt rule as the country marked International Workers' Day. May 1 is a national holiday in Germany, with unions traditionally organizing demonstrations for workers' rights across the country. Frank Werneke, the chairman of the powerful verdi trade union, demanded that Germany's strict "debt brake," which caps government borrowing, be reformed or suspended in favour of greater investment in public services and climate adaptation. "Urgently needed investments in infrastructure, local and lo...
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German trade union leaders on Wednesday called for social justice and reforms to the strict constitutional debt rule as the country marked International Workers' Day. May 1 is a national holiday in Germany, with unions traditionally organizing demonstrations for workers' rights across the country. Frank Werneke, the chairman of the powerful verdi trade union, demanded that Germany's strict "debt brake," which caps government borrowing, be reformed or suspended in favour of greater investment in public services and climate adaptation. "Urgently needed investments in infrastructure, local and lo...
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German trade union leaders on Wednesday called for social justice and reforms to the strict constitutional debt rule as the country marked International Workers' Day. May 1 is a national holiday in Germany, with unions traditionally organizing demonstrations for workers' rights across the country. Frank Werneke, the chairman of the powerful verdi trade union, demanded that Germany's strict "debt brake," which caps government borrowing, be reformed or suspended in favour of greater investment in public services and climate adaptation. "Urgently needed investments in infrastructure, local and lo...
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New York (AFP) - Around 7,200 workers with Daimler Truck in three southern US states were poised Friday for a potential strike as labor contract talks headed down to the wire. Representatives for the United Auto Workers and Daimler Truck have been in talks over a new contract to replace the one that expires at midnight Friday night for workers who build long-haul trucks and buses. The UAW, led by President Shawn Fain, has vowed to strike at Daimler's sites, comprised of four industrial sites in North Carolina and one each in Tennessee and Georgia, if key demands are not met. In a webcast earli...
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New York (AFP) - Volkswagen workers in Tennessee voted decisively to become a union shop, according to election results released Friday, marking the first victory for organized labor at a foreign-owned auto plant in the American South. With a solid 73 percent supporting, employees in the Chattanooga plant voted for representation by the United Auto Workers at the 13-year-old factory, according to results released by VW, a triumphant outcome for organized labor in a region in which it has long failed to make major gains. "Volkswagen workers just made history!" said a UAW post on X, the former ...
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New York (AFP) - Volkswagen employees in Tennessee began casting ballots Wednesday in a vote that could make theirs the first foreign carmaker to unionize in the American South, expanding gains made by organized labor in the auto heartland of Detroit. Hopes were high among supporters of the United Auto Workers (UAW) union in the city of Chattanooga on the eve of the three-day vote, as the revived labor organization takes on its first target after last fall's triumphant strikes at Detroit's "Big Three" carmakers. "We're really excited," assembly worker Isaac Meadows said as he headed to the pla...
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New York (AFP) - Workers from Ford, General Motors and Stellantis ratified new contracts with hefty wage hikes, their union announced Monday, closing the books on an historic autoworkers strike at the three Detroit giants. Members of the United Auto Workers voted 64 percent across the three companies in support of the contracts, said a UAW press release marking the official conclusion of the first-ever simultaneous stoppage at the three companies. "The members have spoken. After years of cutbacks, months of our Stand Up campaign, and weeks on the picket line, we have turned the tide for the Am...
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New York (AFP) - Workers from Ford, General Motors and Stellantis ratified new contracts with hefty wage hikes, their union announced Monday, closing the books on an historic autoworkers strike at the three Detroit giants. Members of the United Auto Workers voted 64 percent across the three companies in support of the contracts, said a UAW press release marking the official conclusion of the first-ever simultaneous stoppage at the three companies. "The members have spoken. After years of cutbacks, months of our Stand Up campaign, and weeks on the picket line, we have turned the tide for the Am...
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