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Auto workers win Tennessee union vote, despite opposition from Southern GOP governors, including Kemp in Georgia
Auto workers at a Volkswagen plant in Tennessee voted in a landslide to unionize Friday night, bucking the opposition of Republican governors across the South, including Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp. The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) released the final 2,628 to 985 vote tally — with 73% of the Chattanooga VW workers voting to join…
Conyers Waffle House workers strike for better working conditions
Several workers at a Conyers Waffle House extended what was supposed to be a one-day strike into a third day on Wednesday with support from the Union of Southern Service Workers (USSW). The workers at the 2020 Flat Shoals Road location are demanding an end to Waffle House’s mandatory meal deduction policy, a $25 per…
Union Doings: 4 Georgia union elections so far in 2024, plus a law to make unionizing harder
Georgia union activity hasn’t slowed down in 2024, but since January, workers at Southeastern Paper, U.S. Sugar, and Sherwin-Williams all have voted against unionizing. That said, a group of Nestle warehouse workers in McDonough did unionize in January–and more elections are in the pipeline, including one for stagehands at the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. What’s more,…
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