Anyone hear any news or updates?
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@OP 🚨 VOLKSWAGEN WORKERS MAKE HISTORY, RATIFY FIRST UNION CONTRACT AT MAJOR SOUTHERN AUTO PLANT 🚨
In a historic victory, Volkswagen workers have voted by 96 percent to ratify their first union contract. The deal locks in 20 percent wage increases, healthcare cost reductions, job security guarantees, an enforceable grievance procedure, and much more. The ratification vote caps a years-long campaign by Volkswagen Chattanooga autoworkers to join the UAW and win a better life with a union contract.
“Volkswagen workers have moved yet another mountain,” said UAW President Shawn Fain. “From having the courage to stand up and form their union, to having the backbone to authorize a strike and hold out for a contract that honors their worth, VW workers are leading the way for the entire labor movement and non-union autoworkers everywhere. Welcome to the UAW family.”
The over 3,000 Volkswagen workers in Chattanooga voted overwhelmingly to join the UAW in April of 2024. In October of 2025, after more than a year of negotiations, workers voted to authorize a strike in order to win a fair contract. In early February, they reached a tentative agreement with the company, which has now been ratified.
“This victory shows what happens when workers stand up and refuse to be ignored. We didn’t just win better wages and raise standards at our plant — we forced respect onto the table and got it all in writing,” said Yogi Peoples, a Bargaining Committee member from Assembly. "Our victory here at Volkswagen should send a message to autoworkers everywhere: don’t let management divide you. When workers fight together – united and unafraid -- we can beat the odds and win!”
"Southern autoworkers are standing up, and I expect many more to follow Volkswagen’s lead,” said UAW Region 8 Director Tim Smith. “Workers are done being left behind, and VW is just the first step towards justice for autoworkers everywhere. Who are we? U-A-W!”
Volkswagen workers in Chattanooga voted 3-to-1 to join the UAW in 2024, with support from the Volkswagen Works Council and IG Metall. Soon after the victory, workers elected a 20-member negotiating committee made up of their peers. After months of negotiations, the contract marks a breakthrough for nonunion autoworkers and manufacturing workers across the South. The agreement ensures that Volkswagen workers have a legally binding, enforceable contract guaranteeing fair pay, more affordable healthcare, safer working conditions, and clear protections against favoritism.
The details of the agreement are available at UAW.org/VW.
I have heard so many rumors good and bad that it made my head spin.So many could be or maybe that it made me so crazy I know wait on the side the road for the short bus to come take me away but unfortunately it picks up so many Verizon employees on its route there’s no room.
Reserved parking at McDonalds is on the table! Hooray!
@d0 are your pa-ties in a bunch? What’s your problem pal.
You guys need to stop asking this every fu--ing day.
Only 2 years?
@OP Hearing that allow 2 year extension is being discussed. If true, that would kick the can down the road for the next CEO. Which makes a lot of sense.
@c1 uhhh, yeah. A company will put their needs first. Wow, shocking news.
@c1 the company has never been concerned with our “needs”. Employees are a tool to be used and put away when not needed. I had an area manager tell me that about our contractors but the same applies to us, they just have contractual obligations to work around.
@c1 companies needs are supposed to the priority of a company. actually shareholder value is LEGALLY the priority of publically traded companies.
Verizon has decided not to offer a IPP this first quarter due to they want to see the outcome of early bargaining this is a reminder that the company will always put their needs first before ours and they will be using this as a negotiating tactic and strategy that’s all I heard since there new negotiation tactic code name “ blackout”
Deal done within 14 days