By David Shepardson
(Reuters) -The United Auto Workers (UAW) said on Thursday that more than 30% of workers at Hyundai Motor’s Alabama plant had signed cards seeking to join the union.
In November, the UAW said it was launching a first-of-its-kind push to publicly organize the entire non-union auto sector in the U.S. after winning record new contracts with the Detroit Three automakers.
The UAW has for decades unsuccessfully sought to organize auto factories operated by foreign automakers.
The Detroit-based UAW in November announced simultaneous campaigns by workers at 13 nonunion automakers to join the union. Those automakers employ nearly 150,000 workers at their U.S. assembly plants, about the same number as those employed by the Detroit Three companies that signed new labor agreements with the UAW.
Earlier this week, the UAW said over 10,000 autoworkers in total at 13 non-union automakers had signed union cards.
The UAW has said if 30% of workers at a nonunion plant sign cards seeking to join, it would make that public.