UAW campaign to organize Southeast carmakers gets into gear

[ As of Wednesday morning, 30 percent of workers at the Mercedes-Benz facility outside Tuscaloosa, Ala., have voted to join the national union, according to a statement from UAW.     It also comes on the heels of last fall’s 40-day strike by around 50,000 UAW workers, who conducted simultaneous walkouts against the “Big Three” automakers — Ford, General Motors and Stellantis — in the upper Midwest and won sizable pay increases.  … Read more