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30 January, 2003DaimlerChrysler Freightliner workers in North Carolina show their support for the union.
USA: In a major recruiting victory in the U.S. South, the IMF-affiliated United Auto Workers union has won the right to represent 3,100 workers at two plants in North Carolina operated by DaimlerChrysler's Freightliner unit. The UAW has long campaigned to represent workers at the two DaimlerChrysler-owned factories.
A majority of workers at the plants -- in Cleveland and Gastonia -- approved a "card check" voting process, in which they signed a card indicating support for unionisation. UAW president, Ron Gettelfinger, said that "card check elections are a fair and democratic way to find out whether workers really want a union."
Workers at Freightliner's truck assembly plant in Mount Holly, North Carolina, who have been UAW members since 1990, played a key role in supporting the organising drive in Cleveland and Gastonia.
Source: UAW, Detroit News, just-auto.com