VANCE, Ala. Some 5,200 Mercedes-Benz workers in its Vance, Ala., factory complex will vote soon on whether to join the United Auto Workers, in the latest manifestation of the union’s strategy to break foreign “transplant” auto firms’ stranglehold on Southern workers.
Last month, investigators with the Labor Department’s Wage and Hour Division executed a search warrant at Moon Poultry, where they allegedly saw workers younger than18 using sharp knives to debone raw poultry instead of being in school.
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