A German union leader on Volkswagen AG supervisory board says union representation at the company's Chattanooga, Tenn., assembly plant shouldn't come without a vote—a position that could complicate the United Auto Workers' effort to gain a foothold at the factory.
The UAW, as part of a broader effort to organize nonunion auto factories in the southern U.S., says it has collected signed union cards from more than half of the 2,000 production workers at the VW plant.
The UAW has signaled it would prefer Volkswagen management to accept the union as its bargaining partner without a secret ballot election by workers, a path allowed under U.S. labor law.
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