On October 6, 2023, United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain updated union members on the status of negotiations with the Detroit automakers during an online broadcast.
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DETROIT – The United Auto Workers union files unfair labor practice charges with the National Labor Relations Board Honda cars, Hyundai Motor and VolkswagenThe union said on Monday it accused the automaker of illegally interfering with worker organizing.
The UAW accuses managers of three plants — Honda in Greensburg, Indiana; Hyundai in Montgomery, Alabama; and Volkswagen in Chattanooga, Tennessee — of engaging in illegal “worker organizing” into the United Auto Workers. Union-busting activities during meetings.
The union alleges that these activities range from spying on Honda workers to confiscating, destroying and banning Hyundai from “storing pro-union materials in non-work areas during non-work hours.”
At Volkswagen, the UAW claimed that management “harassed and threatened workers for talking about the union; confiscated and destroyed pro-union materials in break rooms; attempted to intimidate and unlawfully silence workers who supported the union; and attempted to unlawfully prohibit workers from speaking about the union.” . Distribute union literature during non-work hours and discuss union issues in non-work areas. “
“These companies are violating the law by trying to make autoworkers sit down and shut up instead of fighting for their fair share,” said UAW President Shawn Fain. said in a statement. “But these workers are showing management that their right to speak and organize for a better life will not be threatened.”
Volkswagen told CNBC that it “respects the right of our workers to decide who should represent their interests in the workplace” and that it “takes such allegations very seriously and will investigate accordingly.”
Spokespeople for Honda and Hyundai did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
The documents were not immediately posted online National Labor Relations Board websitebut the union provided them to CNBC.
The conduct leading to the charges against the employer occurred within the past six months, according to documents signed by UAW outside counsel Benjamin Dictor, an attorney at Eisner Dictor & Lamadrid in New York.
About two weeks ago, the UAW said it would launch an unprecedented campaign in the U.S. to organize 13 non-union automakers to join the charges, after signing record contracts with three Detroit automakers. General Motors, Ford and star.
UAW membership has almost halved since 2001, from about 700,000 that year to 383,000 in early 2023. It peaked at 1.5 million people in 1979.
Fain vowed to expand beyond the “Big Three” to a “Big Five or Six” by the time his four-and-a-half-year contract with the Detroit automaker expires in April 2028.
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