Corporate Power Has Long Dominated Alabama. Autoworkers May Change That.

Last week, the United Auto Workers (UAW) notched a historic victory when workers at the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, voted decisively to unionize. This is the first triumph in the UAW’s ambitious new campaign to organize over a dozen nonunion auto plants across the U.S., especially in the South. Now the focus moves to Vance, Alabama, where 5,000 Mercedes-Benz workers will vote on a...

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