{"id":129878,"date":"2024-05-17T02:27:15","date_gmt":"2024-05-17T02:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=129878"},"modified":"2024-05-17T02:27:17","modified_gmt":"2024-05-17T02:27:17","slug":"mercedes-workers-share-why-they-support-the-uaw-and-think-the-union-will-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=129878","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Mercedes workers share why they support the UAW and think the union will win&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alreporter.com\/2024\/05\/16\/mercedes-workers-share-why-they-support-the-uaw-and-why-they-think-the-union-will-win\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AL Political Reporter<\/a>: &#8220;Both turnout and enthusiasm in the union election at the Mercedes plant in Vance have reportedly been high, which the UAW is viewing as a positive sign. Workers have been casting ballots since Monday and the election will close at 9:45am on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The election is being supervised by agents from the National Labor Relations Board, with observers from both Mercedes and the United Auto Workers present as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rick Webster, who works at Mercedes\u2019 Plant 2 doing final fit and finish, said that \u201chow the National Labor Relations Board has been handling [the election] has been fantastic. They have kept everything above board.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AL Political Reporter: &#8220;Both turnout and enthusiasm in the union election at the Mercedes plant in Vance have reportedly been high, which the UAW is viewing as a positive sign. Workers have been casting ballots since Monday and the election will close at 9:45am on Friday. The election is being supervised by agents from the&#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-129878","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\/129878","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=129878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129879,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129878\/revisions\/129879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}