(CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE) – Earlier this week, United Auto Workers (UAW) President Shawn Fain accompanied a delegation of Volkswagen workers and Community and Faith Leaders to deliver a letter to Volkswagen management demanding the company end its Union-busting and intimidation as Workers organize to join the UAW. 

“These Workers at your plant are our neighbors, congregants, family and friends, and we applaud them for having the courage to demand better for themselves and our community,” reads the letter from CALEB (Chattanoogans in Action for Love, Equality and Benevolence), a Community and Faith Coalition advocating for economic justice in Chattanooga. “However, we are deeply concerned by the stories Chattanooga Workers have shared with us regarding Volkswagen’s efforts to stop them - in some cases illegally - from exercising their rights.” 
 
Meanwhile, Volkswagen Workers have filed Federal Unfair Labor Practice (ULP) Charges against VW for illegally intimidating, interfering with, and spying on Pro-Union Workers. 

In addition, VW Workers filed another Federal Labor Charge against the company for unlawful company policies concerning Social Media, dress code, and flyering that have a chilling effect on Workers’ rights to stand up and speak out publicly about their working conditions and the need to Unionize. 

Volkswagen’s illegal actions come on the heels of the UAW announcing that well over 1,000 Workers, making up over 30% of the Chattanooga Plant, have signed Union Cards as part of a national movement of Non-Union Auto Workers organizing to join the UAW in the wake of the Union’s record contract victories at Ford, GM, and Stellantis. 

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