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    Why is UAW pushing a strike vote at Volkswagen Chattanooga?

    October 28, 2025 // "We are disappointed the UAW chose to call a strike authorization vote before giving our employees a say on our strong final offer that was on the table," a Volkswagen spokesperson told The Tennessean. "Our final offer meets many of our employees' priorities and delivers strong investments in our workforce and in our plant's future."

    UPDATE: Union submits counteroffer after Volkswagen makes final contract public

    October 21, 2025 // The contract includes a 20% wage increase over four years, a $4,000 ratification bonus, the company’s first-ever cost-of-living allowance and lower health care costs. If approved before Oct. 31, employees would receive an additional $1,500. Employees could make nearly $80,000 each year, before overtime and benefits, according to a contract fact book released by Volkswagen. Withdrawn portions of the contract include random drug testing and a tentative agreement about onsite childcare, after disagreements on a weekly subsidy amount.

    The UAW Is Still Fighting to Unionize Auto in the South

    October 18, 2025 // Daniel Kopp At the time of your election in 2024, you had a rather supportive National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) under the Biden administration. This is no longer the case, as Donald Trump is starving it of resources. Has that influenced your strategy at Mercedes? Jeremy Kimbrell You don’t change your strategy, because organizing is organizing. Workers have to have courage. You have to understand that the risk will never be zero. Inherently, you hope and expect that the risk is limited.

    Testimony: Rachel Greszler: Labor Law Reform Part 1: Diagnosing the Issues, Exploring Current Proposals

    October 10, 2025 // SummaryToday’s challenges—from the rise of artificial intelligence to the expansion of independent work and the growing demand for flexibility, autonomy, and new skills—necessitate modernized labor laws that are pro-worker and pro-employer, regardless of the type of workplace. Heavy-handed government interventions and attempts to bring back the 1950s’ ways of work are not the answers. American labor laws should preserve the freedom, dignity, and opportunity that make American work exceptional.

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    Opinion: Time to Protect Workers’ Pay

    October 10, 2025 // The United Auto Workers bears no resemblance to the collaborative employee councils common in Germany. Another lesson from the proposed strike: If employers won’t protect their employees from unions, it’s a signal to every red-state governor and Legislature that they need to mount a more vigorous defense of workers’ paychecks.

    Editorial Board: Volkswagen Gets What It Paid For

    October 7, 2025 // Company culture is one part of the story. The German auto maker is used to working with unions back home, which take part in its governance and are usually less combative than their American peers. But politics may also have pushed VW to roll over. Thirty-three Senate Democrats wrote a letter in January 2024 to every non-union auto maker in the U.S., suggesting the companies would lose electric-vehicle subsidies if they opposed union campaigns. VW, which builds an electric SUV in Chattanooga, may have decided that fighting the union would be the costlier move. Now the EV subsidies are going away in any case thanks to the GOP budget bill and Trump Administration orders.

    UAW says it has received ‘overwhelming’ response to strike pledge cards in Chattanooga

    September 30, 2025 // The United Auto Workers has received an "overwhelming" response from workers to pledge cards it circulated to gauge interest in a strike at Volkswagen Chattanooga, according to the union.

    VW’s 20% Raise And Bonus Offer Could Make or Break US Union Deal

    September 23, 2025 // That’s clear today as Volkswagen recently took the unusual step of publicly addressing their “final contract offer to the UAW.” In a brief statement, the company said negotiations have been going on for nearly a year and their latest offer will be their last.

    Volkswagen Breaks Off Talks With UAW Local in Tennessee

    September 18, 2025 // Volkswagen VOW -1.85%decrease; red down pointing triangle made its “last, best” offer Wednesday to hourly workers represented by the United Auto Workers at its Tennessee assembly plant, and it is up to the union whether to put the proposed contract to a vote, the German automaker said. Volkswagen is offering an immediate pay hike of 5% and subsequent annual increases of 3% to 6% over four years, according to a company official. VW says a worker at its top hourly wage would earn nearly $80,000 in 2026, including an attendance bonus, before overtime and profit-sharing. Over four years, wages would rise by 20%, the company estimated.

    Shawn Fain, Who Pledged to Reform U.A.W., Faces Internal Dissent

    September 16, 2025 // The dissident workers’ main complaints about Mr. Fain are rooted in internal union matters like budgets and his treatment of other union officials, rather than in grand philosophical disagreements about labor and political issues. The people seeking to oust him say that he has spent too much of the union’s money on organizing campaigns in the South and other initiatives they consider misguided. They contend that he has improperly stripped two board members of critical duties and say he failed to prevent a Michigan-based automaker from laying off thousands of workers.