UAW partners with Germany's IG Metall to push for better US wages, union representation

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA -- The UAW and Germany's biggest autoworker union, IG Metall, have joined forces to drive for enhanced wages and working conditions in the U.S. crops of German vehicle and components makers.
The newest project, dubbed the Trans-National Partnership Initiative, will also recommend for German-style works councils or comparable organizations in America where plant employees and direction make choices about operating conditions, shifts, wages as well as other workplace problems, based on a UAW declaration nowadays.
"The unions consider some German manufacturing companies are using low-wage surroundings in the U.S. South, where operating conditions -- including health and security scenarios -- tend to be difficult for workers," the UAW stated in its statement.
The initiative was introduced today in a news conference in a UAW Neighborhood in Spring Hill, Tenn. The TPI will start an office in Spring Hill. IG Metall states some 100,000 employees are used at German-owned auto makers and providers in in the USA.
"We understand that worker wages and benefits -- comparatively -- are lower than they have experienced preceding years," UAW Secretary-Treasurer Gary Casteel stated at today's news conference, according to prepared remarks. "Put differently: While the automotive industry is booming again, several hardworking Americans have not been able to completely share in that achievement like they did in years previous."
The task deepens ties involving the UAW and IG Metall after the two have worked together to form workers in the U.S. crops of Mercedes Benz and Volkswagen.
The drive to get a German-style works council in the VW factory in Chattanooga, Tenn., has been the UAW's highest-profile attempt to manage workers at a foreign-owned plant in the southern U.S. lately.
The attempt has brought the UAW to the effective IG Metall trade-union, whose former manager Berthold Huber was named interim chairman of VW AG's supervisory board after the resignation of Ferdinand Piech last spring. Huber is a vocal proponent of the UAW's organizing push in the Volkswagen's Tennesee factory, encouraging workers in a 2013 letter to join the labor organization, Reuters reported in the time.
In a assertion that carefully adopted the UAW's declaration, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce mentioned German-style works councils contradict U.S. labor legislation, which puts limitations on management's engagement with worker representation groups.
"The UAW might recommend for some thing they phone a 'works council,' but the truth is it could be only a normal union neighborhood," Glenn Spencer, vice-president of the U.S. Chamber's Workforce Flexibility Initiative, stated in a statement.

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