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WHAT INVESTORS SHOULD KNOW ABOUT THE UAW'S ORGANIZING DRIVE OF VW

Published Mon, Apr 22 20241:08 PM EDTUpdated Mon, Apr 22 20244:21 PM EDT
Michael Wayland@MikeWayland
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Key Points
 * Volkswagen workers in Chattanooga, Tennessee, overwhelmingly voted in favor
   of joining the United Auto Workers – marking the Detroit union's first
   victory at a foreign-owned automaker plant in the South.
 * The historic vote could have wide-ranging impacts on other automakers,
   organized labor and the overall U.S. automotive industry.
 * VW and the union, barring any challenges to voting, are expected to move
   forward with bargaining over a contract for roughly 4,300 workers covered
   under the vote.

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Volkswagens are seen in the employee parking lot at the Volkswagen automobile
assembly plant on March 20, 2024 in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Elijah Nouvelage | Getty Images

DETROIT – The United Auto Workers notched a big win this weekend.

Volkswagen workers in Chattanooga, Tennessee, overwhelmingly voted in favor of
joining the UAW late Friday – marking the Detroit union's first victory at a
foreign-owned automaker plant in the South. The vote could have wide-ranging
impacts on other automakers, organized labor and the overall U.S. automotive
industry.



"This is a really profound victory for the UAW and the labor movement in
general," said Alex Hertel-Fernandez, a former Department of Labor official and
an international and public affairs professor at Columbia University. "It's also
a really decisive victory."

Union organizing passed with 73% of the vote, or 2,628 workers, in support of
the UAW, according to the National Labor Relations Board, which oversaw voting
from Wednesday to Friday.

The German automaker and union, barring any challenges to voting, are expected
to move forward with bargaining over a contract for roughly 4,300 workers
covered under the vote. The NLRB still needs to certify the results.

Here's what investors should know about the vote and next steps for the UAW:


UAW MOMENTUM

The UAW saw the Friday vote as the union's best shot at organizing the VW plant
following strikes and record contracts with General Motors, Ford Motor and
Chrysler parent Stellantis in 2023.



The union, led by President Shawn Fain, is using the deals with the Detroit
automakers, which included record wage increases and benefits, as springboards
for an unprecedented organizing drive of 13 non-union automakers in the U.S.

Other than Volkswagen, the union is targeting: BMW, Honda, Hyundai, Lucid,
Mazda, Mercedes-Benz, Nissan, Rivian, Subaru, Tesla, Toyota and Volvo. The drive
covers nearly 150,000 U.S. autoworkers, according to the UAW.

"This is likely to be contagious," said Hertel-Fernandez. "Where workers see
successes in organizing or strikes, it tends to inspire further action in that
industry and beyond it."

Kelcey Smith displays UAW buttons in Chattanooga, Tennessee on April 10, 2024. 
Kevin Wurm | The Washington Post | Getty Images

Next up for the union are 5,200 Mercedes-Benz workers at an SUV plant in Vance,
Alabama. Workers at the facility earlier this month filed NLRB paperwork for a
formal election that is scheduled for May 13 through May 17.

"We're going to carry this fight on to Mercedes and everywhere else," Fain told
VW workers Friday night following the historic vote. "So, thank you all, thank
you all for your fight, for your work. And let's get to it. Let's go to work.
And let's win more for the working class all over this nation."


IMPACT ON LABOR COSTS

Top of the list of likely impacts from organizing efforts at VW is labor costs.

UAW organizers used the record contracts with the Detroit automakers to gain
support for the union in Chattanooga. UBS said in an investor note that VW has a
relatively low operating margin in the U.S., and "substantial pay increases
could undermine the profitability outlook of the local US operations."

But for the Big Three Detroit automakers — and their shareholders — the VW
organizing drive could be a positive.

GM, Ford and Stellantis have higher all-in labor costs than non-organized
automakers such as VW. Depending on contract details, labor pushes like VW and
others could somewhat even that playing field.

United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain cheers the U.S. President Joe Biden
during the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress in the
House Chamber of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., March 7, 2024. 
Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters

"Overall, given the substantial pay gap between UAW-unionized workers
(Detroit-3) and non-unionized workers in the southern states, it can be assumed
that the vote will lead to more upwards pressure on wages for VW over time," UBS
said in an investor note.

Before last year's contracts with the Detroit automakers, all-in labor costs for
Ford, GM and Stellantis were between $63 and $67 an hour, according to industry
experts. That compared with workers at non-domestic, or transplant, automakers
such as VW at $55 an hour. Those costs included all benefits and health care
costs.

Still, there's no guarantee that VW – a much smaller automaker in the U.S. –
will agree to the same terms as the traditional domestic automakers.

Fain on Friday said "the real fight begins now," referring to the expected
negotiations between the union and VW.


UNION JOBS

The VW vote was widely expected to be the easiest in the UAW's organizing plans,
as the union had already established a presence there following votes that
narrowly failed in 2019 and 2014.

The margin of success in Chattanooga could bode well for UAW efforts at other
automakers, according to Sharon Block, a professor at Harvard Law School and
former DOL and NLRB official.

"I think it's really hard to overestimate the importance of this moment and to
overestimate just how strategic the UAW has been in this campaign, which I think
suggests that this is not the last time that we're going to be talking about a
UAW victory in an auto plant in the South," Block said.

Though opposition during the VW vote was sparse, the most notable instance came
a day before the election began, in the form of a letter from six Republican
governors condemning the UAW's push to organize automotive factories in the
South and warning of potential layoffs.

"We have worked tirelessly on behalf of our constituents to bring good-paying
jobs to our states. These jobs have become part of the fabric of the automotive
manufacturing industry. Unionization would certainly put our states' jobs in
jeopardy — in fact, in this year already, all of the UAW automakers have
announced layoffs," read the statement, which was signed by governors in
Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas.

Block called the letter an "empty threat" and "cynical ploy" but noted that
increased labor costs can result in fewer jobs.

Fewer jobs in the U.S. automotive industry also means fewer eligible workers for
union membership.

Membership with the UAW at the Detroit automakers has significantly fallen in
recent decades, as free trade agreements allowed automakers to produce vehicles
for cheaper elsewhere.

UAW membership, largely made up of autoworkers but also including workers in
agriculture and aerospace, peaked at 1.5 million in 1979. As of last year, the
union's membership was 370,239 workers – down 3.3% from 2022 and 75% from its
peak. Workers from the Detroit automakers only made up roughly 150,000 of that
2023 total.

– CNBC's Michael Bloom contributed to this report.


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