The UAW Is Trying to Organize the Montgomery Hyundai Plant
This week, the United Auto Workers announced that their union drive at the Hyundai plant in Montgomery, Alabama, had signed up over 30% of the 4,000 workers there. It's the third plant in the UAW’s new organizing drive to go public.
A Hyundai Santa Fe being built at Hyundai Motor Manufacturing Alabama in Montgomery, Alabama, March 12, 2010. (Carol M. Highsmith / Library of Congress via Wikimedia Commons)
Autoworkers at Hyundai in Montgomery, Alabama, have signed up more than 30 percent of their nearly four thousand coworkers in an ambitious drive to unionize.
The United Auto Workers (UAW) announced the organizing breakthrough with a new video, “Montgomery Can’t Wait,” where workers link the labor and civil rights movements: “Montgomery, the city where Rosa Parks sat down, and where thousands of Hyundai workers are ready to Stand Up.”
“There’s something about our fight to unionize being homegrown that makes it just that much sweeter,” said Quichelle Liggins, a twelve-year quality inspector at Hyundai.
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