VANCE, Alabama - The United Auto Workers failed in its effort to organize a Mercedes-Benz plant in Alabama , but the loss on Friday was a good result for a first effort in a historically anti-union state, labor professors and analysts said.
Worker uncertainty over the auto industry's transition to electric vehicles will only provide more opportunities for the union, Bible added. However, Harley Shaiken, a labor professor at the University of California, Berkeley, pointed out that the UAW lost twice at VW in Tennessee before finally winning handily. The result at Mercedes was similar to an earlier loss at VW in 2014, when 53% voted against the union.
The UAW called for the election after it said a supermajority of workers signed cards supporting the union, but it clearly lost support in the run-up to the vote. Including the Mercedes plant, there are more than 10 non-union assembly plants in Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Kentucky, South Carolina and Tennessee alone, with such automakers as Toyota, Mazda, Honda, Nissan, BMW, Volvo, Hyundai, Kia and VW.
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