{"id":129154,"date":"2024-04-23T00:25:32","date_gmt":"2024-04-23T00:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=129154"},"modified":"2024-04-23T00:25:35","modified_gmt":"2024-04-23T00:25:35","slug":"victory-uaw-wins-historic-union-vote-in-tn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=129154","title":{"rendered":"Victory! UAW Wins Historic Union Vote in TN"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/autos-transportation\/uaw-clinches-watershed-union-victory-volkswagen-tennessee-factory-2024-04-20\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reuters<\/a>: &#8220;Workers at Volkswagen&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/markets\/companies\/VOWG_p.DE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">(VOWG_p.DE), opens new tab<\/a>\u00a0Tennessee plant have voted to join the United Auto Workers, in a seismic victory for the union as it drives beyond its Detroit base into the U.S. South and West.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A majority of eligible workers cast ballots in favor of the union, with the final tally on Friday at 2,628 to 985, or 73% for joining the UAW.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The landslide win will make the Chattanooga factory the first auto plant in the South to unionize via election since the 1940s and the first foreign-owned auto plant in the South to do so.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters: &#8220;Workers at Volkswagen&#8217;s\u00a0(VOWG_p.DE), opens new tab\u00a0Tennessee plant have voted to join the United Auto Workers, in a seismic victory for the union as it drives beyond its Detroit base into the U.S. South and West. A majority of eligible workers cast ballots in favor of the union, with the final tally on Friday at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=129154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129155,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129154\/revisions\/129155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}