DETROIT – Volkswagen staff at a plant in Tennessee have filed a petition with the Nationwide Labor Relations Board for a vote to affix the United Auto Employees, the union introduced Monday.

The submitting comes after a “supermajority of Volkswagen staff have signed union playing cards in simply 100 days,” the union stated – marking a serious milestone within the labor group’s organizing drives of non-unionized auto vegetation within the U.S.

The UAW has beforehand failed to prepare foreign-based automakers within the U.S. Most lately, vegetation with Volkswagen and Nissan fell wanting the assist wanted to unionize. In 2019, VW staff on the Chattanooga, Tennessee, plant rejected union illustration in an 833-776 vote. 

The Chattanooga plant is Volkswagen’s solely U.S. meeting plant and employs over 4,000 autoworkers who could be eligible to vote for union illustration.

A spokesperson for VW didn’t instantly reply for remark.

VW is one among 13 non-union automakers within the U.S. that the UAW set its sights on late final 12 months after securing document contracts with the Detroit automakers.

The drive covers practically 150,000 autoworkers throughout BMW, Honda, Hyundai, Lucid, Mazda, Mercedes-Benz, Nissan, Rivian, Subaru, Tesla, Toyota, Volkswagen and Volvo.

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