In a landslide vote, the workers at Volkswagen’s Chattanooga, Tennessee plant voted to unionize, another sign of growing strength and power among unions and a sign of improved worker wages, the Associated Press reports. In the final tally, about three-quarters of the 3,500 votes cast favored the union.
The move continues a string of union victories, with employees from factories, universities and fast food restaurants organizing across the country. An anti-union “right to work” state since 1947, Tennessee used that status to attract foreign car manufacturers to the state to claim the workers in the state were willing to accept cheaper wages. Not so much anymore.