In response to the United Auto Workers establishing a union local in Chattanooga, Tenn., anti-UAW Volkswagen employees have begun the process of forming their own union.
Reuters reports Mike Burton, who helped in the effort to defeat the UAW's attempt to unionize the VW plant in Chattanooga earlier this year, is leading the charge for what he says will be the first local of the American Council of Employees. He claims that since the UAW lost in February, VW has strengthened its ties to the union, and wants ACE to become the alternative to Local 42, the local established by ACE's opponents last month.
Meanwhile, UAW secretary-treasurer Gary Casteel believes Burton's counterattack doesn't have much of a chance because of the consensus between his union and the automaker, proclaiming Local 42 has "substantially more than 700 members" from the 1,500 hourly employees who work the floor in Chattanooga. He added that it would be up to VW to recognize ACE.
Though VW has said nothing regarding ACE thus far, it has repeatedly supported the establishment of a works council at its sole U.S. factory.
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