DETROIT – The United Auto Staff union is difficult the outcomes of final week’s organizing vote of Mercedes-Benz employees in Alabama, through which employees voted towards union illustration, and is asking federal officers to order a brand new election.

Amongst a dozen or so claims, the Detroit union alleges that the German automaker fired 4 pro-union employees, pressured employees to attend anti-union conferences, and interfered with employees’ potential to advocate for the union.

Union organizing failed on the Alabama plant with 56% of the vote, or 2,642 employees, casting ballots towards the UAW, in line with the NLRB, which oversaw the election. Greater than 90% of the 5,075 eligible Mercedes-Benz employees voted within the election.

“All these employees ever wished was a good shot at having a voice on the job and a say of their working situations,” the UAW stated in an announcement. “And that is what we’re asking for right here. Let’s get a vote at Mercedes in Alabama the place the corporate is not allowed to fireplace individuals, is not allowed to intimidate individuals, and is not allowed to interrupt the legislation and their very own company code, and let the employees determine.”

The Nationwide Labor Relations Board confirmed Friday afternoon that its Atlanta-based workplace obtained the UAW’s objections to the election. Friday was the final day the union might file objections and problem the election.

Mercedes-Benz in an announcement Friday stated firm officers “labored with the NLRB to stick to its tips and we’ll proceed to take action” via the objection course of. The automaker stated it “sincerely hoped the UAW would respect our Staff Members’ choice.”

The NLRB stated its regional director will overview the UAW’s allegations of an unfair election. If she finds that the objections increase substantial and materials problems with incontrovertible fact that could possibly be finest resolved by a listening to, she is going to order a listening to. If after the listening to, she finds that the employer’s conduct affected the election, she will be able to order a brand new election.

The company additionally reconfirmed that it’s processing and investigating unfair labor follow fees filed by the UAW towards automakers, together with six unfair labor follow fees towards Mercedes-Benz since March.

After the outcomes had been introduced, UAW President Shawn Fain accused the corporate of conducting an anti-union marketing campaign, together with “egregious unlawful conduct,” however he declined to debate the union’s potential plans to object to the outcomes.

Fain stated on Might 17 that the union would proceed to maneuver ahead with its fees towards Mercedes-Benz, which allege that Mercedes-Benz has “disciplined workers for discussing unionization at work, prohibited distribution of union supplies and paraphernalia, surveilled workers, discharged union supporters, pressured workers to attend captive viewers conferences, and made statements suggesting that union exercise is futile,” the NLRB beforehand stated.

The Alabama outcomes had been a blow to the UAW’s organizing efforts a month after it gained an organizing drive of roughly 4,330 Volkswagen plant employees in Tennessee.

The Mercedes-Benz vote was anticipated to be tougher for the union than the vote on the Volkswagen plant in Tennessee, the place the union had already established a presence after two failed organizing drives previously decade and the place it confronted much less opposition from the automaker.