A group of six southern governors warned autoworkers in their states that voting to unionize would put their jobs in jeopardy Tuesday, the day before the vote takes place.
Thousands of autoworkers in Tennessee are expected to vote on Wednesday on whether they want to be represented by the United Auto Workers union, which led major strikes against automakers in Detroit last year.
UAW President Shawn Fain claimed at the time that the union would target more than a dozen nonunion auto plants, which affects more than 150,000 workers in the south, according to the Associated Press.
The effort to discourage the unionization is led by Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee, a Republican, and has been supported by Republican governors in Texas, Alabama, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Georgia.“We are seeing the fallout of the Detroit Three strike with those automakers rethinking investments and cutting jobs,” the governors said in a statement. “Putting […]
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