The GM battery supplier agreed to recognize the union after a majority of employees sign union cards.
October 8, 2024
SPRING HILL, TN—Around 1,000 workers at Ultium Cells’ battery assembly plant here joined the United Auto Workers in September after a majority signed union cards.
CHICAGO—In a speech at the Democratic National Convention here Monday night, UAW president Shawn Fain accused Stellantis of reneging on promises to restart a shuttered assembly plant in Belvidere, IL, northwest of Chicago.
Loss could hurt union's efforts to organize Southern auto plants.
May 20, 2024
VANCE, AL—Workers at two Mercedes-Benz factories in central Alabama voted against allowing the United Auto Workers to represent them, a blow to the union’s campaign to gain ground in the South, where it has traditionally been weak.
Union aims to capitalize on momentum gained from win at VW factory in Tennessee.
May 15, 2024
VANCE, AL—Workers at the Mercedes-Benz assembly plant here 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 South.
CHATTANOOGA, TN—Workers at Volkswagen’s assembly plant here workers voted in favor of union representation in their workplace last week, marking the first time a foreign-owned automotive factory in the South has unionized.
VIDEO | In the debut episode of Assembly News Now, chief editor John Sprovieri talks about the new contract and how the UAW hopes to use that momentum to once again organize nonunion auto plants in the Southeast.