Automotive workers in the American south are on the verge of ushering in a new era of unionized solidarity. Just weeks after workers in a Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Mercedes-Benz facility began campaigning to unionize, similar efforts are taking off at Hyundai’s plant just two hours away in Montgomery. Workers in the plant have been given large pay increases since the UAW recent successful strike against Stellantis, General Motors, and Ford, though are still paid some ten dollars per hour less than union workers. Hyundai workers also say that injuries and death run rampant in the factory, leading them to seek union protections.