Alabama
Employees at Alabama Mercedes plants vote 56 percent against union, slowing UAW effort in South
Workers at two Mercedes-Benz factories near Tuscaloosa, Alabama, voted overwhelmingly against joining the United Auto Workers, a setback in the union’s drive to organize plants in the historically nonunion South.
About 5,200 workers were eligible to vote at an auto assembly plant and a battery factory in and near Vance, Alabama, not far from Tuscaloosa.
The workers voted 56 percent against the union, according to unofficial totals released by the UAW, which h... [5085 chars]