UAW Loses Unionization Vote at Mercedes Factories in Alabama

The election, fiercely opposed by the state’s political leaders, was seen as a test of the United Automobile Workers’ ability to unionize factories in the South. Automobiles, Mercedes-Benz, Organized Labor, Factories and Manufacturing, United Automobile Workers, Electric and Hybrid Vehicles, Batteries, Wages and Salaries, Workplace Hazards and Violations, Politics and Government, Ivey, Kay, Tuscaloosa (Ala), Southern States (US), Alabama The election, fiercely opposed by the state’s political leaders, was seen as a test of the United Automobile Workers’ ability to unionize factories in the South. NYT > Business