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As a one-time Chattanooga resident and habitual labor journalism tourist to the hills of Eastern Tennessee, I was so excited that I couldn’t sleep when I found out today the UAW was filing for another union election at Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga. For nearly 3 years, the symbol of

Today, the UAW announced that it’s filing for a new union election with the National Labor Relations Board for more than 1,700 production and maintenance workers at Volkswagen’s plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The announcement comes fives year after the UAW lost a union election at the Chattanooga

PITTSBURGH, PA. – On Saturday, a pile of dark green plastic Post-Gazette newspaper bags began piling up outside of the mansion of Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Publisher John Block in the high-end Shadyside neighborhood of Pittsburgh. However, the bags weren’t filled with copies of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, but with copies of the