UAW secures historic union election win at Tennessee Volkswagen plant

Vote makes Chattanooga factory first auto plant in US south to unionize via election since the 1940s

Volkswagen workers at the carmaker’s Chattanooga plant in Tennessee have voted to unionize with the United Auto Workers, a historic victory for the union and the labor movement’s efforts to expand to the southern United States.

The vote was the first union election to be held as part of the UAW’s ambitious organizing drive aimed at unionizing 150,000 workers at non-union auto plants around the US.