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Why the union vote failed at Alabama's Mercedes-Benz plant

The UAW lost the first election by a margin of 597 votes. There will likely be more elections.

Mercedes workers in Alabama reject union, dealing setback to UAW

VANCE, Alabama (Reuters) — U.S. workers at a Mercedes-Benz plant in Alabama handed a stinging loss to the United Auto Workers on Friday, rejecting the union in a vote it

Mercedes-Benz workers in Alabama are voting to join the UAW. Here's what's at stake for workers nationwide.

Analysis-UAW's stinging loss in Alabama won't kill national organizing effort

The United Auto Workers failed in its effort to organize a Mercedes-Benz plant in Alabama, but the loss on Friday was a good result for a first effort in a historically anti-union state, labor professors and analysts said. Employees at the Vance, Alabama, plant voted 56% against joining the union. Until the UAW won overwhelmingly last month at a Volkswagen plant in Tennessee, the union had repeatedly failed to organize a foreign-owned automaker in the region for its nearly 90-year existence.

Mercedes workers reject union in Alabama in setback for labor

Workers at Mercedes-Benz's Alabama facilities have rejected a union drive in a setback to the United Auto Workers' ambitious campaign to organize the American South, according to results released Friday by US authorities.But the American South has been a vexing target for organized labor for decades.