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Workers File Union Busting Charges Against Mercedes-Benz
Workers at Mercedes-Benz’s largest U.S. plant have filed multiple federal charges with the National Labor Relations Board over allegations that the German company is using aggressive and illegal union-busting. tactics Workers are requesting an injunction to put an end to the company’s retaliation against workers In February, Mercedes workers announced that a majority of their coworkers at the Mercedes plant in Vance had signed union authorization cards. Every Mercedes plant in the world is unionized—except the company’s two plants in the United States. Continue reading →
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Germany Opens Anti-Union Investigation at Mercedes-Benz
Germany’s Federal Office for Economic Affairs and Export Control has opened a formal investigation about the alleged illegal anti-union conduct at the Mercedes-Benz plant in Vance, Alabama. The German Federal Office for Economic Affairs and Export Control was responding to UAW filed charges against Mercedes-Benz Group AG in early April for violating Germany’s new law on global supply chain practices. The powerful German automotive trade union IG Metall has thus far not publicly commented.
Voting is now underway at the Mercedes-Benz plant in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, where large majority of workers have come out in support of the union . The UAW says they have been subjected to a brutal, months-long campaign of illegal intimidation by management and outside anti-union consultants hired by the company. Continue reading →