Alabama Daily News: Montgomery Hyundai workers hold unionization forum with United Auto Workers
By ALEXANDER WILLIS
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Less than a week after Mercedes-Benz workers announced their efforts to organize with the United Auto Workers, employees at Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Alabama held a discussion panel Monday to discuss their own UAW union campaign, which workers claim has already garnered hundreds of employee signatures.
Held at the Mt. Zion Church in Montgomery, the discussion panel was organized in part by the UAW, which last year launched a national campaign to organize non-unionized automakers in southern, right-to-work states. That campaign came in the wake of the union’s 46-day strike against Ford, General Motors and Stellantis, a strike that saw the elimination of two-tier wage systems and significant wage increases for UAW workers.
The event was held Monday to coincide with Martin Luther King Jr. Day, who was killed in Memphis, Tennessee while supporting striking sanitation workers.