Press Release
AFL-CIO President on UAW Mercedes-Benz Vote Results in Alabama
… entire AFL-CIO family stands with the workers and organizers in Tuscaloosa. They put their heart and soul into the fight to join a union, resisting every union-busting tactic in the book—and they made huge strides. Like their fellow autoworkers … this vote tooth and nail. That obstruction is part of a long oppressive history in the South, from slavery to Jim Crow “right to work” laws to prison labor. But today, young, Black, Brown and women workers in the South are writing a new chapter and …