By Nora Eckert DETROIT (Reuters) -The United Auto Workers (UAW) union is seeking a new election at a Mercedes-Benz plant in Alabama after losing a vote there last week, according to a petition filed on Friday with the National Labor Relations Board. The union accused Mercedes of engaging “in a relentless anti-union campaign” including the […]
For a small insect, cicadas have generated a big buzz this year. A rare dual brood emergence of cicadas is happening this spring and summer, meaning that trillions of male cicadas the insects will be singing their mating song — a distinctive hum that can reach up to 100 decibels, which is comparable to the […]
A majority of the workers at two Mercedes plants near Tuscaloosa, Alabama, rejected an opportunity to join the United Auto Workers union in an election that concluded on May 17, 2024. UAW supporters lost 2,642 to 2,045, just one month after the workers at a Volkswagen plant in the neighboring state of Tennessee chose by […]
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By Nora Eckert VANCE, Alabama (Reuters) – The United Auto Workers failed in its effort to organize a Mercedes-Benz plant in Alabama, but the loss on Friday was a good result for a first effort in a historically anti-union state, labor professors and analysts said. Employees at the Vance, Alabama, plant voted 56% against joining […]
A poultry plant in Jasper, Alabama, has been accused of hiring minors and could be shut down for 30 days, according to a newly released US Department of Labor lawsuit. Mar-Jac Poultry, the largest employer in Walker county, is accused of violating federal labor laws when it hired four minors as young as 16 who […]
When Republicans in Alabama enacted a law earlier this year to protect in vitro fertilization following a court decision that halted the treatment in the deeply conservative state, they pitched it as a temporary fix. They vowed to revisit the issue before the state Legislature adjourned and promised to work on a bill they said […]
MOBILE COUNTY, Ala. (WKRG) — National data shows that many children experience learning loss during summer break, but the Mobile County Commision’s local investments through its $80.26 million allocation from the American Rescue Plan Act are looking to change that, according to a press release. Hangout Music Festival arrives in Gulf Shores; festival may be […]
UAW President Shawn Fain acknowledged that the defeat at Mercedes in Alabama was a setback but said the union would push on with additional organizing drives in the South (BILL PUGLIANO) Workers at Mercedes-Benz’s Alabama facilities have rejected a union drive in a setback to the United Auto Workers’ ambitious campaign to organize the American […]
Workers at two Mercedes-Benz factories in Alabama have voted against joining the United Auto Workers, the largest autoworkers union in the U.S., a blow to an effort to strengthen the presence of organized labor in the South. The Friday vote was seen as a bellwether for the ability of newly resurgent labor groups to successfully […]
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — Workers at two Mercedes-Benz factories near Tuscaloosa, Alabama, voted overwhelmingly against joining the United Auto Workers on Friday, a setback in the union’s drive to organize plants in the historically nonunion South. The workers voted 56% against the union, according to unofficial totals released by the UAW, which had people watching […]
An Alabama middle school principal was arrested and charged in the cold-case deaths of three people in Georgia more than a decade ago. The victims were found Jan. 13, 2013, after an officer in Union City, Georgia, saw a 2010 Dodge Charger abandoned in Fulton County, the Clayton County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release […]