CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) — The United Auto Workers union has gained a first victory at a foreign-owned automaker in the South, winning a vote by skilled-trades workers at Volkswagen's lone U.S. plant to have the UAW negotiate their collective bargaining agreements. The workers whop repair and maintain machinery and robots at the German automaker's factory in Chattanooga voted 108-44 for UAW representation over two days ending Friday. Volkswagen objected to the vote favoring the UAW to represent just 162 skilled-trades workers. It argued that all of the plant's 1,400 blue-collar workers should have a say over union issues and plans to appeal the ruling allowing the vote to the National Labor...
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