Alabama Mercedes-Benz Workers Accuse Company of Union-Busting in NLRB Complaint

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Julia Conley is a staff writer for Common Dreams.

A month after the United Auto Workers announced that a majority of workers at the Mercedes-Benz plant in Vance, Alabama had signed union cards, employees struck a defiant tone Tuesday as they filed official complaints of union-busting by the company with the National Labor Relations Board.

After winning new contracts for workers at the Big 3 automakers last fall following an historic 'stand-up strike,' the UAW has launched campaigns at non-unionized plants owned by Mercedes, Volkswagen, Hyundai, and Toyota, convincing more than 10,000 autoworkers so far to sign union cards.Another battery plant worker, Taylor Snipes, told the UAW that managers at the company were forcing him and his coworkers 'to attend meetings and watch anti-union videos that are full of lies.

 

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