The House Committee on Education and the Workforce is probing whether the Biden administration tried to influence the outcome of the United Auto Workers (UAW) election at two Mercedes-Benz plants in Alabama in May.
United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain is under investigation by a federal court-appointed watchdog tasked with monitoring the union.
The Center for Union Facts slammed United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain as “America’s latest election denier” in a full-page ad in the New York Times on Thursday.
On the eve of the vote for Mercedes-Benz workers in Vance to join the United Auto Workers, former Alabama head football coach Nick Saban asked the UAW to take down an advertisement that he says misused his comments and image.
As workers at the Mercedes-Benz plant in Vance prepare to vote on joining the United Auto Workers Union (UAW), State Sen. Arthur Orr (R-Decatur) said other car manufacturers in the state may consider moving out if the unionization goes through.
Mercedes-Benz workers in Vance will vote in May on whether to join the United Auto Workers, according to Reuters.
A “supermajority” of Mercedes-Benz workers in Vance have filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board seeking a vote to join the United Auto Workers, according to a news release from the UAW on Friday.
A majority of workers at Mercedes-Benz’s largest plant in the United States in Vance have signed union cards in support of joining the UAW, the union announced on Tuesday.
According to McNair, workers at the Mercedes-Benz plant in Vance should “carefully evaluate the promises being made" by United Auto Workers before they continue down the path of officially unionizing.