{"id":2247163,"date":"2024-05-17T18:22:11","date_gmt":"2024-05-17T22:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/workers-at-alabama-mercedes-plants-break-string-of-wins-for-uaw-by-rejecting-unionization\/"},"modified":"2024-05-17T18:26:34","modified_gmt":"2024-05-17T22:26:34","slug":"workers-at-alabama-mercedes-plants-break-string-of-wins-for-uaw-by-rejecting-unionization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/workers-at-alabama-mercedes-plants-break-string-of-wins-for-uaw-by-rejecting-unionization\/","title":{"rendered":"Alabama Mercedes plant workers disrupt UAW winning streak by voting against unionization"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fworkers-at-alabama-mercedes-plants-break-string-of-wins-for-uaw-by-rejecting-unionization%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2247163&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Auto\u2062 workers\u2062 at \u2063two Alabama Mercedes-Benz \u200dfactories rejected joining the United Auto Workers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-defector-emails-pipeline-to-obama-admin-seen-as-currency\/\" title=\"Hunter Biden Defector Emails: 'Pipeline' to Obama Admin Seen as 'Currency'\">union<\/a> on Friday, disrupting a trend of unionizations \u200bin \u200bthe South. The vote&#8217;s outcome,\u2062 56% against unionization to \u206444% in favor, \u2064with 4,687 votes\u200b and 7% abstaining, requires both\u200b sides to wait\u200c five days before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/class-action-settlement-deadline-for-dude-wipes-customers-to-file-exclusion-in-9-million-settlement-in-two-days\/\" title=\"Dude Wipes customers have two days left to file exclusion in  million class-action settlement.\">filing objections<\/a>. UAW President Shawn Fain expressed optimism \u2062despite the setback, \u200clikening the struggle to the story of \u200bDavid and Goliath.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_78\">\n<p>Auto workers at two <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/alabama\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Alabama<\/a> Mercedes-Benz factories voted against a move to join the United Auto Workers union on Friday, breaking a string of unionizations in the South.<\/p>\n<p>Unionization failed 56% to 44% with a total of 4,687 votes cast and 7% of eligible voters abstaining. The National Labor Relations Board said both sides will have to wait five days to file an objection.<\/p>\n<p>UAW President Shawn Fain <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/united-auto-workers-mercedes-vote-union-organizing-bb5f6855474b0197b015d70273651a94#\">told<\/a> workers the results were not what the union had hoped for, but he said the UAW eventually will prevail. \u201cThese courageous workers reached out to us because they want justice,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Fain compared the unionization fight to the biblical David and Goliath. Sometimes Goliath wins a battle, \u201cbut ultimately, David will win the war,\u201d he said. \u201cThese workers will win their fair share.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In April, the UAW unionized workers at a Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, after two other tries. <\/p>\n<p>Gov. Kay Ivey (R-AL) voiced her pleasure for the workers\u2019 decision, saying the \u201cworkers in Vance have spoken, and they have spoken clearly! Alabama is not Michigan, and we are not the Sweet Home to the UAW.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div>\n<blockquote data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The workers in Vance have spoken, and they have spoken clearly! Alabama is not Michigan, and we are not the Sweet Home to the UAW. We urge the UAW to respect the results of this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-infrastructure-plan-a-boon-for-unions\/\" title=\"Biden\u2019s Infrastructure Plan a Boon for Unions\">secret ballot election<\/a>. \u2b07\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/alpolitics?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#alpolitics<\/a> (1\/3)<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Governor Kay Ivey (@GovernorKayIvey) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GovernorKayIvey\/status\/1791561603818590358?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 17, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>One worker who opposed unionization told the <em>Associated Press<\/em> she \u201crealized that the UAW was making lofty promises that it couldn\u2019t put in writing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another who was pro-union said workers were shown anti-union videos often and was \u201cdisappointed in the people that flipped and believed the persuaders.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><strong>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>President Joe Biden has made unions a critical part of his 2024 campaign strategy, landing an endorsement <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/04\/23\/politics\/biden-building-trades-union-endorsement\/index.html\">from<\/a> the North America\u2019s Building Trades Unions and visiting U.S. Steelworkers in Pennsylvania last month.<\/p>\n<p>Biden also <a href=\"https:\/\/penncapital-star.com\/campaigns-elections\/uaw-delivers-rousing-presidential-endorsement-for-biden-over-scab-trump\/\">received<\/a> Fain\u2019s and the UAW\u2019s endorsement in January.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alabama Mercedes-Benz plant workers rejected joining the UAW, ending a series of unionizations in the South. The vote results were 56% against unionization to 44% in favor, with 4,687 votes cast and 7% abstaining. The National Labor Relations Board will proceed accordingly<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2247164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/AP24138701452596-1024x592.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2247163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/AP24138701452596-1024x592.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2247163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2247164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2247163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2247163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2247163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}