May 17, 2024 – 6:22 AM PDT
VANCE, Alabama (Reuters) – The outcome of a vote on Friday by workers at a Mercedes-Benz (MBGn.DE) factory in Alabama will be a key referendum on whether the United Auto Workers can maintain momentum in the historically anti-union South.
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The UAW hopes to continue a run that includes an overwhelming organizing victory at a Volkswagen VOWG_p.DE plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, as well as a lucrative new contract at six Daimler Truck facilities across the South. Daimler Truck (DTGGe.DE) was spun off from what is now Mercedes.
A win at Mercedes would make it the second foreign-owned automaker in the U.S. South to…
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