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Related: About this forumMercedes Joins the UAW!
See this post in GD with the press release: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025627966
Published on Oct 3, 2014
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. At a news conference today, Mercedes-Benz U.S. International (MBUSI) employees and the UAW with support from the Daimler World Employee Committee and the German automotive trade union IG Metall announced the formation of UAW Local 112, a new local union providing representation for workers at the MBUSI assembly plant in Vance, Ala., near Tuscaloosa.
Mercedes-Benz Employees Charter UAW Local 112 in Alabama
Joint Agreement Calls for MBUSI to be UAW-Represented Facility
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Mercedes Joins the UAW! (Original Post)
Omaha Steve
Oct 2014
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brush
(53,784 posts)1. Good for them
And in the South, too.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)2. This is great news.
Thank you, Omaha Steve.
dotymed
(5,610 posts)3. Southerners
need to see how life changing belonging to a Union is. If we get more of this, we can get rid of the RW good ol' boy "leadership."
bleedinglib
(212 posts)4. VW
Tennessee VW may be next!!!