Despite backing from the Biden administration and favorable media publicity, the UAW unionization campaign was turned back by the first serious management resistance it encountered.

Autoworkers at a Mercedes Benz plant in Alabama voted against joining the United Auto Workers union Friday, potentially stalling hopes of a rapidly growing organizing wave for autoworkers in the southern United States.

The unofficial tally Friday afternoon in Tuscaloosa showed 2,642 "no" votes and 2,045 "yes" votes or 56% against and 44% for the union.

Votes are being counted on Friday to see if the United Auto Workers score another victory in unionizing a Mercedes-Benz plant and its more than 5,000 workers near Tuscaloosa, Ala.

United Auto Workers union president Shawn Fain celebrates with Volkswagen workers on April 19,2024, after a successful organizing campaign. After months of organizing efforts, the United Auto Workers (UAW) union is just hours away from finding out if workers at Mercedes-Benz’s factory in Tuscaloosa,

In a blow to UAW aspirations, workers at Mercedes-Benz plants in Alabama have rejected a bid to join the union.

Thousands of Mercedes-Benz workers in Alabama voted against joining the United Auto Workers (UAW) on Friday, delivering a significant defeat for the union one month after it prevailed at a Volkswagen facility in nearby Tennessee.

The United Auto Workers have sought to expand to non-union plants in the South since winning a major contract with the “big three” Detroit automakers—but that effort suffered a setback Friday.

Mercedes workers near Tuscaloosa, Ala., voted against joining the United Auto Workers union on Friday, delivering a blow to the labor movement’s efforts to organize auto factories and other industries across the South.

The outcome of a vote on Friday by workers at a Mercedes-Benz factory in Alabama will be a key referendum on whether the United Auto Workers can maintain momentum in the historically anti-union South.

A decisive vote against the United Auto Workers union at two Mercedes factories in Alabama on Friday sidetracked the UAW's grand plan to sign up workers at nonunion plants mainly in the South.