VW's manipulation of the NLRB process to halt a vote of its workers is a travesty.
The United Auto Workers said Monday it believes the National Labor Relations Board’s Atlanta office will take action that could permit a union vote at the Volkswagen assembly plant in Chattanooga to take place.
But the timing of a new election remains uncertain.
“After reading the NLRB order, we are confident that the NLRB Region 10 will take action … to allow the withdrawal of the maintenance petition and revoke, at the Chattanooga workers request, the certification of the maintenance petition,” said Brian Rothenberg of UAW International.
He said that after completion of those steps to dissolve the result of a 2015 unionization bid by maintenance workers at VW, the UAW expects the board to proceed with a new election for all of the production workers at the VW plant.