TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — After 20 years at the Mercedes-Benz factory in Alabama , Brett Garrard said he is “not falling for the lies anymore” and will vote for a union.
Jacob Ryan, 34, has worked for Mercedes for 10 years, starting as a temporary worker around $17 per hour for “the same exact work” before being hired full time. Ryan, who says inflation is eating into employee paychecks, said he pays close to $1,200 each month for his son’s day care and his daughter’s after-school care.“None of it goes to the employees. We’re stuck where we were, paying way more for everything,” Ryan said.
Howell, a quality team leader who has worked at the Mercedes plant for 19 years, is suspicious of the UAW after a bribery and embezzlement scandal that landed two former union presidents in prison. She grew up in Michigan and heard relatives employed by automakers speak poorly of the union. But the overwhelming Volkswagen win on the third plantwide vote since 2014 gives the union huge momentum heading into next week’s election, Wheaton said. At Volkswagen, the union had experience recruiting at the plant and knew workers from previous organizing drives, which ended with narrow losses, he said. A UAW win at Mercedes would be a bigger victory than at Volkswagen because it would come on the first try.
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