{"id":129329,"date":"2024-04-26T02:30:58","date_gmt":"2024-04-26T02:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=129329"},"modified":"2024-04-26T02:31:00","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T02:31:00","slug":"labor-organizer-jane-mcalevey-on-uaws-astounding-victory-in-vw-tennessee-her-fight-against-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=129329","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Labor Organizer Jane McAlevey on UAW\u2019s Astounding Victory in VW Tennessee &amp; Her Fight Against Cancer&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2024\/4\/23\/jane_mcalevey_uaw_volkswagen_us_labor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Democracy Now!<\/a>: &#8220;<em>Democracy Now!<\/em>\u00a0speaks with the great labor organizer and writer Jane McAlevey about the historic victory for Volkswagen employees at a Chattanooga, Tennessee, factory who voted overwhelmingly to join the United Auto Workers union. The plant will become the first foreign-owned car factory in the South to unionize. \u201cThis win wasn\u2019t just a win \u2014 it was what we would call a beatdown,\u201d says McAlevey, who says the UAW\u2019s recent success is a result of direct democracy and smart, strategic organizing that could lead to the unionizing of Mercedes workers in Alabama. \u201cIt\u2019ll be a massive change in the U.S. South.\u201d We also speak with McAlevey about her terminal cancer diagnosis and why she\u2019s \u201cgoing to fight until the last dying minute, because that\u2019s what American workers deserve.\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democracy Now!: &#8220;Democracy Now!\u00a0speaks with the great labor organizer and writer Jane McAlevey about the historic victory for Volkswagen employees at a Chattanooga, Tennessee, factory who voted overwhelmingly to join the United Auto Workers union. The plant will become the first foreign-owned car factory in the South to unionize. \u201cThis win wasn\u2019t just a win&#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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129329","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=129329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129330,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129329\/revisions\/129330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}