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VW Chattanooga Workers Vote to Unionize, 73% Favor UAW, ID.4 Plant Unionized

Apr 20, 2024, 03:10 AM

In a landmark union election held on Friday, Volkswagen workers at the Chattanooga, Tennessee plant, where the ID.4 is produced, voted to join the United Auto Workers (UAW). This significant victory for the union marked the first successful unionization at a non-union U.S. auto plant in decades, and the first at a foreign-owned auto plant in the South since the 1940s. The vote concluded with a decisive 73% in favor, totaling 2,578 votes for unionization against 933 opposed. This victory is seen as a pivotal moment for labor movements in the traditionally anti-union South, potentially influencing future unionization efforts at other non-union factories across the region.