A new union election could go on later this month for a small group of maintenance workers at Chattanooga’s Volkswagen plant if a United Auto Workers petition receives National Labor Relations Board approval.
But the UAW doesn’t want to proceed if the NLRB favors a VW-supported alternative to include a much larger group of production workers along with maintenance employees, according to an official.
The UAW logo is displayed on the podium at a news conference in July.Following a two-day NLRB hearing in Chattanooga, the parties agreed the UAW election for 164 maintenance workers could be Nov. 12 and 13, or Nov. 19 and 20, if the union’s petition gets the OK.
The original vote was proposed for today and Friday, but VW said earlier this week it favors an election by maintenance and production employees at the plant, which would push the number of potential voters to more than 1,400.
The UAW in February 2014 lost a vote of blue-collar workers at the plant by a margin of 712 to 626.