VW Workers in Tennessee Start Vote on U.A.W., Testing Union Ambitions
Last fall, the United Automobile Workers union won major wage increases at Detroit automakers, and the impact quickly spread to nonunion auto plants throughout the South. Afterwards, Toyota, Honda, Volkswagen, Nissan, Hyundai and Tesla increased wages for their own hourly workers in the United States, none of whom are unionized. On production lines in Alabama,…