Big Labor Gamble: Push to Unionize Every U.S. Auto Plant
A looming election at a Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga could be pivotal in the United Automobile Workers’ effort to organize the entire industry.
By Noam Scheiber
I cover workplace issues like pay, gig work, inequality and discrimination, as well as labor unions and labor organizing. I have closely covered the union organizing campaigns at companies like Amazon, Starbucks, Apple and Microsoft. I have also written a lot about the transition to clean energy and what it means for workers.
I’ve covered labor and the workplace for roughly a decade, including more than eight years at The Times. Before that I covered the Obama administration for The New Republic magazine in Washington, and three presidential elections. I wrote a book about the Obama administration’s response to the Great Recession, called “The Escape Artists,” which was published in 2012. I started my career covering economic policy at The New Republic in the early 2000s.
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