VW global works council supports UAW effort in Chattanooga

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Volkswagen's global works council is backing renewed efforts by the United Auto Workers to represent workers at the German carmaker's Chattanooga plant, according to Reuters.

Frank Patta, general secretary of Volkswagen's global works council, said the UAW was best placed to establish the "time-proven practice of co-determination at Volkswagen." Patta brother, Sebastian, oversees human resources at the Chattanooga factory.

At UAW's convention earlier this year, Frank Patta spoke out in favor of the UAW, which lost an organizing election in Chattanooga in February by a vote of 53 percent to 47 percent.

However, a group of anti-UAW employees is moving ahead with its own unionizing initiative.

The group hopes to gather enough signatures to have an election for the American Council of Employees.

It would counter UAW Local 42, which the Detroit-based union set up in June with hopes of gaining enough members that VW will recognize it.

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