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Knowing the area, I would doubt it is voted on favorably. Many people in the South are very leery of unions, and that's without people running PR for/against it

• wahern 6y ago
  Case in point: workers at a VW plant rejected unionization in 2014 despite the company all but supporting it: > Volkswagen did not oppose the U.A.W. partly because its officials were eager to create a German-style works council, a committee of managers and blue-collar and white-collar workers who develop factory policies, on issues like work schedules and vacations. Volkswagen, which has unions and works councils at virtually all of its 105 other plants worldwide, views such councils as crucial for improving morale and cooperation and increasing productivity. Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/15/business/volkswagen-workers-reject-forming-a-union.html https://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/15/business/volkswagen-worke... The campaign against unionization was largely driven by local politicians spreading F.U.D., which was relatively easy given widespread anti-union sentiments in the South and general union skepticism among the general U.S. population.
  • alkonaut 6y ago
    Imagine working at a US auto plant and being offered what German auto workers have. And turning it down.
• jkestner 6y ago
  The specific area has a history of organizing going back 100 years. http://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/h-2314 http://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/h-2314 https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2021/02/11/amazon-union-warehouse-alabama https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2021/02/11/amazon-union-ware...