DETROIT — The United Auto Staff has filed unfair labor follow fees with the Nationwide Labor Relations Board towards Honda Motor, Hyundai Motor and Volkswagen, accusing the automakers of unlawfully interfering with employee organizing, the union stated Monday.

UAW alleges administration at three services — for Honda in Greensburg, Indiana; Hyundai in Montgomery, Alabama; and Volkswagen in Chattanooga, Tennessee — have participated in unlawful “union-busting as staff arrange to affix the UAW.”

The union alleges the actions vary from surveillance of staff at Honda to confiscating, destroying, and prohibiting “pro-union supplies in non-work areas throughout non-work occasions” at Hyundai.

At VW, the UAW alleges administration has “harassed and threatened staff for speaking concerning the union; confiscated and destroyed pro-union supplies within the break room; tried to intimidate and illegally silence pro-union staff; and has tried to illegally prohibit staff from distributing union literature and discussing union points in non-work areas on non-work time.”

“These corporations are breaking the regulation in an try and get autoworkers to sit down down and shut up as a substitute of combating for his or her fair proportion,” UAW President Shawn Fain stated in an announcement. “However these staff are exhibiting administration that they will not be intimidated out of their proper to talk up and arrange for a greater life.”

Volkswagen advised CNBC it “respects our staff’ proper to find out who ought to signify their pursuits within the office” and it takes “claims like this very significantly and can examine accordingly.”

Spokespeople for Honda and Hyundai didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark. 

The filings weren’t instantly obtainable on the NLRB’s web site, however the union supplied them to CNBC.

The actions that prompted the allegations towards the employers occurred over the last six months, in accordance with the filings, which had been signed by UAW outdoors counsel Benjamin Dictor, an legal professional with New York-based Eisner Dictor & Lamadrid.

The costs come roughly two weeks after the UAW stated it was launching an unprecedented marketing campaign to arrange 13 nonunion automakers within the U.S. after it secured report contracts with the three Detroit automakers — Normal Motors, Ford Motor and Stellantis.

UAW membership has been practically reduce in half since 2001, from about 700,000 that 12 months to 383,000 at the start of 2023. It peaked at 1.5 million in 1979.

Fain has vowed to maneuver past the “Large Three” and increase to the “Large 5 or Large Six” by the point its four-and-a-half-year contracts with the Detroit automakers expire in April 2028.