Politics@beehaw.orgEnglish · 7 months ago

VW Workers in Tennessee Vote for Union, a Labor Milestone

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VW Workers in Tennessee Vote for Union, a Labor Milestone

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Politics@beehaw.orgEnglish · 7 months ago

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The Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga is set to become the first unionized auto factory in the South not owned by one of Detroit’s Big Three.

They did it! Get ready to watch the dominoes fall.

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Yes, and those exploitative labor relationships so popular in the South serve to reproduce an embedded social structure that favors the usual suspects. Pic stolen from an excellent piece in the NYT yesterday from Jamelle Bouie.

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