United Auto Workers (UAW) members and supporters are on the picket line outside the ZF Chassis Systems plant in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, on Wednesday, September 20, 2023.
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DETROIT – The United Auto Workers union is challenging the results of last week’s organizing vote by Mercedes-Benz workers in Alabama – when workers voted against union representation – and asking federal officials to order a new election.
The union accused the German automaker of firing four pro-union workers, forcing workers to attend anti-union meetings and interfering with workers’ ability to defend the union, among more than a dozen other charges.
The National Labor Relations Board confirmed Friday afternoon that its Atlanta office received objections to the election from the United Auto Workers union.
Union organizing at the Alabama plant failed, with 56 percent of the vote, or 2,642 workers, voting against the UAW, according to the NLRB, which oversees the election. More than 90 percent of the 5,075 eligible Mercedes-Benz employees participated in the election.
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