By a nearly three-to-one margin, workers at Chattanooga’s Volkswagen plant have voted to join the United Auto Workers union.
It’s a historic win for the UAW - and for unions - in the South after previous votes in 2019 and 2014.
Stephan Bisaha is a reporter for the Gulf States Newsroom - a regional collaboration between NPR and member stations in Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana.
He has covered the UAW’s push to unionize at auto plants across the South - and he came to Chattanooga to cover the vote by workers at VW.
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