The United Auto Workers has won a union vote among skilled-trades workers at Volkswagen’s lone U.S. assembly plant in Tennessee.
The workers who specialize in repairing and maintaining machinery and robots at the German automaker’s factory in Chattanooga voted 108-44, or 71 percent, to have the UAW negotiate collective bargaining deals on their behalf.
The vote comes nearly 20 months after the union was narrowly defeated in an election involving all hourly plant employees.
Ray Curry, director of UAW Region 8 covering the South, commended Volkswagen employees for exercising their rights in a representation election.
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