UAW union files unfair labor practice charges against Volkswagen

Reuters

Thu, Mar 13, 2025, 8:06 AM 1 min read

DETROIT (Reuters) - The United Auto Workers national said Thursday it filed unfair labour signifier charges against Volkswagen, saying the automaker is trying to chopped jobs astatine a mill successful Tennessee wherever the national is negotiating its archetypal declaration aft winning an predetermination determination past year.

"The UAW has notified the Trump Administration of Volkswagen’s unacceptable, anti-union, anti-worker, and anti-American conduct," UAW President Shawn Fain said successful a statement.

A spokesperson for Volkswagen said it is cutting accumulation successful Tennessee to a two-shift exemplary retired of caution for lowered EV demand. Workers astatine the Tennessee works assemble the ID.4 electrical SUV.

The Germany-based automaker is offering accumulation employees a "voluntary attrition program," including a severance package, status options and benefits, the spokesperson said.

"We stay committed to our squad members, our customers, and our beingness successful Chattanooga. This alteration supports that commitment," the institution said successful a statement.

The car national won an predetermination astatine the Chattanooga, Tennessee mill past April, making it the archetypal car works successful the South to unionize via predetermination since the 1940s and the archetypal foreign-owned car works successful the South to bash so.

(Reporting by Nora Eckert, Editing by Franklin Paul)