United Auto Workers tests its hold in the South as a Tennessee Volkswagen finishes voting on membership

Get the Full Storythe UAW is operating under new leadership, directly elected by its members for the first time and basking in a successful confrontation with Detroit s major automakers.

The United Auto Workers ambitious drive to expand its reach to nonunion factories across the South and elsewhere faces a key test Friday night, when workers at a Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, will finish voting on whether to join the union.

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