DETROIT — Thousands of workers at an enormous Mercedes-Benz manufacturing facility near Tuscaloosa, Alabama, will vote next month on whether or not they need to be represented by the United Auto Workers union.
The National Labor Relations Board stated Thursday that the vote will happen May 13-17 on the amenities in Vance and Woodstock, Alabama. Votes shall be counted by the company on May 17.
The NRLB stated the corporate and the union agreed to the election dates.
The vote would be the second in the union’s drive to manage 150,000 workers at greater than a dozen nonunion auto manufacturing vegetation largely in Southern states. About 4,300 workers at Volkswagen’s manufacturing facility in Chattanooga, Tennessee, are voting on union representation this week, with the vote tally to be introduced on Friday.
The organizing effort comes after the UAW gained massive pay raises after putting Detroit’s three automakers final fall.
The Mercedes amenities had about 6,100 workers as of the tip of 2023. More than 5,000 are calling for the union vote, UAW has stated.
In response to the workers’ petition, Mercedes-Benz U.S. International said that it “fully respects our Team Members’ choice (on) whether to unionize.” The firm added that it plans to guarantee all workers have an opportunity to solid their very own secret-ballot vote and have entry to “the information necessary to make an informed choice” throughout the election course of.
The UAW has accused Mercedes administration of anti-union ways in current weeks, submitting federal labor costs in opposition to the corporate.
Earlier this week the governors of six Southern states, together with Alabama and Tennessee, put out an announcement saying that workers will put their jobs in jeopardy in the event that they vote for a union.
