{"id":23966,"date":"2024-04-20T11:10:03","date_gmt":"2024-04-20T11:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.todaytradenews.com\/2024\/04\/20\/vw-workers-in-tennessee-vote-to-join-uaw-in-historic-win-for-detroit-union\/"},"modified":"2024-04-20T11:10:18","modified_gmt":"2024-04-20T11:10:18","slug":"vw-workers-in-tennessee-vote-to-join-uaw-in-historic-win-for-detroit-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wp.todaytradenews.com\/2024\/04\/20\/vw-workers-in-tennessee-vote-to-join-uaw-in-historic-win-for-detroit-union\/","title":{"rendered":"VW workers in Tennessee vote to join UAW in historic win for Detroit union"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three highlights of the article are:<\/p>\n<p>1. Volkswagen workers in Chattanooga, Tennessee, voted overwhelmingly to join the United Auto Workers (UAW) with 73% of the vote.<br \/>\n2. The successful organizing drive marks a major milestone for the UAW as its first successful organizing drive of an automaker outside of Detroit&#8217;s Big Three.<br \/>\n3. UAW leaders plan to use this victory as a launching point for organizing campaigns at 13 other automakers in the U.S., following recent contract wins with major companies.<\/p>\n<p>Summary: The article discusses the historic victory of Volkswagen workers in Chattanooga, Tennessee, who have voted overwhelmingly to join the United Auto Workers (UAW). This marks a significant milestone for the union as its first successful organizing drive of an automaker outside of Detroit&#8217;s Big Three. The National Labor Relations Board oversaw the election, where 73% of the workers supported union organizing. The UAW plans to leverage this win to further their organizing campaigns at 13 other automakers in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three highlights of the article are: 1. Volkswagen workers in Chattanooga, Tennessee, voted overwhelmingly to join the United Auto Workers (UAW) with 73% of the vote. 2. The successful organizing drive marks a major milestone for the UAW as its first successful organizing drive of an automaker outside of Detroit&#8217;s Big Three. 3. UAW leaders [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":23971,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14225],"tags":[1196,2420,65,124,14648,975,14304,1978,705,8066],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.todaytradenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23966"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.todaytradenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.todaytradenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.todaytradenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.todaytradenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/wp.todaytradenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.todaytradenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.todaytradenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.todaytradenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.todaytradenews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}