UAW’s Balance of Southern Organizing, Big Three Bargaining Presents Key Challenge

Collective bargaining talks with the Detroit Big Three automakers set to begin in 2015 could shape the United Auto Workers’ effort to regroup from a costly representation defeat in Chattanooga, Tenn., with a continued focus on organizing Southern transnational auto plants, labor scholars and auto analysts told Bloomberg BNA.

The exact strategies the UAW will deploy at the bargaining table in 2015—with Ford Motor Co., General Motors Co. and Chrysler Group LLC—and in its representation pursuit at three foreign-owned assembly plants—Volkswagen AG in Chattanooga, Nissan Motor Co. in Canton, Miss., and Daimler AG in Vance, Ala.—are still a work in ...