The chairman of the Mercedes-Benz works council, Ergun Lümali, calls on his colleagues at the US plant in Tuscaloosa (Alabama) to vote for unionization through the “United Auto Workers” (UAW). “We are facing a historic decision and our position is as clear as it is unequivocal: We encourage our colleagues in Tuscaloosa to make history by exercising their right to vote and voting to form a union,” said Lümali, who is also chairman of the The group’s global employee representative body is WELT AM SONNTAG.
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The vote on union representation at the Mercedes plant begins on May 13th. In a similar vote in April, employees at the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, voted overwhelmingly for the UAW.
In previous years, the union had lost such votes – also because the employers had spoken out against it. “We are closely monitoring the UAW’s activities and company conduct in Tuscaloosa,” Lümali said. After successfully voting for the UAW, Tuscaloosa will become a “full member of the World Workers’ Council.”
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