Alabama Mercedes-Benz workers reject UAW bid

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Autoworkers at a Mercedes-Benz (MBG.DE, MBGYY) facility in Alabama voted against joining the United Auto Workers union in a 56% to 44% decision. UAW...

) facility in Alabama voted against joining the United Auto Workers union in a 56% to 44% decision. UAW President Shawn Fain said the loss"stings" but vowed to carry on fighting.A Mercedes Benz plan in Alabama has rejected joining the United Auto Workers Union by a vote of 2642 to 2045 with more on the story.There was kind of thoughts that it could go either way.They, the you would say this is definitely a majority here.

So there's some stuff going on there that might sort of change, turn a tide, maybe for another vote we'll see. Yes, it's these plants in the states that aren't union friendly, trying to find, you know, apparently they're saying back, back, back in the day, Alabama was a pro union state believe or not.So they're going to find that next sort of candidate for them that, I mean, they, they need to build a momentum.This was not exactly a good thing to happen and, and Sean Fain was, was, was pretty sober on, on, on the call today.You see, and that's what he was counting on for sure.

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