A win would make the Chattanooga factory the first auto plant in the South to unionize via election since the 1940s and the first foreign-owned auto plant in the South to do so
The Volkswagen plant where workers are voting on whether to join the United Auto Workers union, in Chattanooga, Tenn., on April 18.The United Auto Workers is counting on scoring a seismic victory at Volkswagen’s Tennessee plant as unionization votes are tallied on Friday – one that opens up the anti-union U.S. South to organized labor.
Federal officials from the National Labor Relations Board on Friday evening will start the counting of ballots after three days of voting ends, with results expected around 11 p.m. Eastern Time . The UAW has said it sets votes in motion once 70 per cent of eligible workers at a plant – of which there are approximately 4,300 at VW’s Tennessee factory – have signed cards supporting unionization.
Over the last several months, a group of volunteer workers at the plant, which produces the electric ID.4 SUV and other vehicles, held organizing meetings to drum up support, with occasional guidance and assistance from Detroit’s UAW officials. VW has said it has taken a neutral position on the vote at its only non-union factory globally. The UAW has previously represented VW workers at a Pennsylvania plant that built Rabbit cars before it closed in 1988.
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