Mark Gruenberg at People’s World reports that despite an election loss at the Mercedes-Benz plant in Vance, Alabama, United Auto Workers (UW) President Shawn Fain says his Union will continue to campaign there and to keep organizing at other “transplant” Foreign Auto Firms throughout the Union-resistant South.  Complete - but unofficial, returns show the UAW lost by a 44%-to-56% margin.  The loss comes after the Union broke through, on its third try, at another Southern “transplant,” the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee.  Despite the loss in Alabama, Fain touted gains the Workers won as Mercedes scrambled to combat the Union Campaign.  Desperate to head off a Union victory, Mercedes made major concessions to the workers just before the election, including the abolition of the company’s Two-Tier Wage System - a key win for UAW in its earlier Stand Up Campaign against the Detroit Automakers - and Mercedes’ removal of its U.S. CEO, “who didn’t care” about the Workers.

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