split off in 2021. The Daimler deal comes amid a broad campaign by the UAW to organize southern auto assembly plants following lucrative new contracts in a confrontation with Detroit’s automakers.
Last week, 73% of those voting at a Volkswagen AG plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, chose to join the UAW. It was the union’s first in a southern assembly plant owned by a foreign automaker.
Workers at Mercedes factories in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, will vote on UAW representation in May. However, UAW’s efforts have sparked pushback from Republican governors and business leaders in the South.
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