UAW’s stunning victory at a Tennessee VW factory could spell union wins at other southern plants

The win at the foreign-owned plant proved all the pundits wrong. The United Auto Workers’ overwhelming election victory at a Volkswagen plant in Tennessee is giving the union hope that it can make broader inroads in the South, the least unionized part of the country.The UAW won a stunning 73% of the vote at VW after losing elections in 2014 and 2019. It was the union’s first win in a Southern assembly plant owned by a foreign automaker.Union President Shawn Fain said the pundits all...