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Weather’s role in wildfires in Atlantic Canada | SaltWire #weather #climatechange #wildfireseasonDETROIT - Workers at a Mercedes-Benz plant in Alabama began voting Monday on whether to join the United Auto Workers union, a significant test of whether the labor group can maintain momentum in the historically anti-union American South.
The 5,200 employees at the assembly plant and nearby battery factory will cast ballots this week, with final results expected Friday. Making a strong showing in the Motor City was critical for wooing workers in the South, Fain has said. Ryan, who has been a full-time worker at the plant for about five years, has been encouraging unionization since before Fain was elected.
"The challenge is very significant to win at the Mercedes plant and in states like Alabama ... where there really has been so little union activity," said Kate Andrias, a professor at Columbia Law School who specializes in labor law. State governments in the South have waged strong resistance to unionizing. Six governors, including Alabama's Kay Ivey, signed a letter urging workers to reject the UAW. They said unionization would stunt the auto industry's growth across the South.
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