The United Auto Workers union has begun organizing campaigns at Honda Motor and Subaru. According to the Wall Street Journal, on Nov. 10, the union posted links to social networking site X that contains online bureaucracy that Honda and Subaru staff in the U. S. have been working on the Internet. The U. S. Department of Homeland Security (US) can cover to express its support for UAW representation.
Honda operates production facilities in the U. S. , Ohio, Alabama and Indiana, and employs at least 22,000 production workers. Subaru employs about 6,000 more people at its assembly plant in Lafayette, Indiana.
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The move marks a formal escalation of unionization efforts on those not unionized after weeks in which UAW President Shawn Fain said the union’s goals went beyond General Motors, Ford Motor and Stellantis, Chrysler’s parent company.
According to the National Labor Relations Board, the UAW would want at least 30% of staff to sign the cards before the union can simply ask the company to hold a formal unionization vote.
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In addition to Asia-based automakers like Honda and Toyota, electric vehicle leader Tesla is also the target of a UAW unionization drive.
Some of the staff at the company’s plant in Fremont, California, tried to organize with the UAW several years ago. Tesla took steps to obstruct that effort, adding staff “coercively interrogated” and threatening to squander their inventory options — measures that violated U. S. hard work law, the NLRB ruled.