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Workers vote to reject union at Mercedes-Benz in Alabama
Workers at two Mercedes-Benz plants in Alabama have rejected membership in the United Auto Workers. In a nationally-watched vote that hints at the future of organized labor — and the challenge for union activists hoping for inroads in the South — 56 percent of workers at two Mercedes-Benz plants in Alabama slammed the brakes on the momentum of an energetic UAW push to unionize the auto industry in the mostly non-union South.