Volkswagen employees make $23.40 an hour to start and, in four years, progress to $32.40. Last fall, the UAW negotiated for Detroit Three workers to get back cost-of-living adjustments.

VW has held lengthy discussions with the UAW on all aspects of the new contract and recently started to discuss economic issues. The union can choose to accept or decline the offer or make a ...

Earlier this year, 4,300 workers at the VW's Chattanooga plant voted almost 3-to-1 to join the UAW, becoming the first Southern autoworkers outside the Big Three to unionize.

UAW President Shawn Fain is trying to convince other unions to set their contracts to expire the same date. "So, the VW contract will likely have that expiration date, too," he said.

VW officials have said they are working toward moving from a production of 200,000 vehicles annually to 300,000. The UAW election, though, changed things.

VW said its pay exceeds the median household income for the Chattanooga area, which was $54,480 last May, according to the U.S. Labor Department.

30%: Volkswagen Says It Has Two Years To Get It Together The move is a key development for the UAW, which has been working to expand its footing across the EV battery manufacturing space.

Richard Hurd. a labor relations professor at Cornell University, said Volkswagen’s hardball tactics on the UAW vote come as a surprise because of the strong union role on the company board in ...

Emboldened by the defeat of the United Auto Worker's attempt to organize a Volkswagen factory in Chattanooga, TN last week, right-wing, anti-union forces are set to go on the offensive to prevent ...

The UAW says it has support of a majority of Chattanooga VW's 1,567 blue-collar workers, and has collected signatures on cards authorizing that the union represent them.