U.S. union UAW close to organizing at Volkswagen plant: paper

FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Volkswagen's manufacturing facility at Chattanooga, Tennessee, is with regards to becoming the first U.S. automobile meeting plant run through a overseas company to have its workers formally represented by the United Auto Workers (UAW) union, a German paper suggested. "Yes, we have a majority," UAW boss Bob King was once quoted announcing via industry daily Handelsblatt in a preview of a piece of writing to be published on Friday. More than 50 % of the workers on the plant, which in line with VW figures numbered 2,415, had signed union playing cards and registered as future union contributors, the paper mentioned. …