DETROIT — Hundreds of employees at an enormous Mercedes-Benz manufacturing unit close to Tuscaloosa, Alabama, will vote subsequent month on whether or not they wish to be represented by the United Auto Employees union.
The Nationwide Labor Relations Board stated Thursday that the vote will happen Might 13-17 on the services in Vance and Woodstock, Alabama. Votes can be counted by the company on Might 17.
The NRLB stated the corporate and the union agreed to the election dates.
The vote would be the second within the union’s drive to arrange 150,000 employees at greater than a dozen nonunion auto manufacturing crops largely in Southern states. About 4,300 employees at Volkswagen’s manufacturing unit in Chattanooga, Tennessee, are voting on union illustration this week, with the vote tally to be introduced on Friday.
The organizing effort comes after the UAW received massive pay raises after placing Detroit’s three automakers final fall.
The Mercedes services had about 6,100 staff as of the top of 2023. Greater than 5,000 are calling for the union vote, UAW has stated.
In response to the employees’ petition, Mercedes-Benz U.S. Worldwide acknowledged that it “fully respects our Team Members’ choice (on) whether to unionize.” The corporate added that it plans to make sure all employees have an opportunity to solid their very own secret-ballot vote and have entry to “the information necessary to make an informed choice” in the course of the election course of.
The UAW has accused Mercedes administration of anti-union techniques in latest weeks, submitting federal labor fees in opposition to the corporate.
Earlier this week the governors of six Southern states, together with Alabama and Tennessee, put out a press release saying that employees will put their jobs in jeopardy in the event that they vote for a union.