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April 22, 2024

The UAW’s Chattanooga Victory: Score One for the North in Our Endless Civil War

Harold Meyerson The American Prospect

We still have two labor systems, and need mass unionization to end our immense inequality, which has its roots in the South.

September 27, 2022

Dispatches From the Culture Wars – September 27, 2022

Portside

The right raves, the people respond

April 20, 2021

Media Bits and Bytes - April 20, 2021

Portside

What is movement journalism? WTF is an NFT? Why does Chattanooga have the best broadband?

February 13, 2014

UAW - VW Vote in Chattanooga - Can Impact Country's Labor Relations; Past Southern Organizing Efforts

Harold Meyerson; Lane Windham

If workers vote to join a union at Volkswagen's Tennessee plant this week, they'll be changing America's labor relations for the better - Harold Meyerson. (Voting started yesterday, Feb. 12, and continues through tomorrow, Feb. 15) Lane Windham looks at past labor and UAW organizing efforts in the south.

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February 11, 2014

Will Chattanooga workers vote in UAW?

Harley Shaiken SFGate.com

A union victory would be the beginning of an ambitious attempt by Volkswagen and the UAW to build a new model for the United States to compete globally. The election itself concludes one of the most innovative and important union-organizing drives in decades.

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February 5, 2014

VW Workers In Tennessee To Vote On Union

Steven Greenhouse The New York Times

1600 Volkswagen workers in Chattanooga, Tennessee to vote on unionization February 12 through 14. It appears that both Volkswagen and the UAW are supporting unionization. This is bringing howls of outrage from right-wing southern politicians. A yes vote would have be seen as a tremendous victory for all those trying to organize in the south.

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