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By Mike Elk and Kris Warner It’s Payday, folks! Greetings from the Pittsburgh of the South: Chattanooga, Tennessee! Tennessee Cadillac Seat Makers Vote Overwhelmingly to Join UAW This week’s Lunch Pail goes out to the workers at Magna Seating in Spring Hill, Tennessee, who voted 192 to 1

By Kris Warner A federal ruling this week in a Memphis union campaign underscores the toothlessness and ineffectiveness of labor law. For the past seven years, workers there have been attempting to organize and collectively bargain at several Ozburn-Hessey Logistics (OHL) distribution centers. Last Friday, the U.S. Court