Volkswagen stated on Wednesday that it will hike salaries for manufacturing employees at its Tennessee-based Chattanooga meeting plant by 11%, weeks after the United Auto Employees union gained important pay and profit hikes from the Detroit Three automakers.
The German firm and different non-union automakers within the U.S. have come beneath elevated strain to enhance pay and advantages following the document contracts achieved by the UAW in late October after hundreds of its members went on a six-week focused strike.
Japanese automakers Honda Motor and Toyota have raised wages for non-union U.S. manufacturing unit employees in latest weeks amid indicators that the union is popping its consideration to organizing the workforce at foreign-owned and Tesla auto crops.
[hotlink]Hyundai Motor[/hotlink] has additionally introduced a 25% enhance over the following 4 years for non-union manufacturing employees in Alabama and Georgia.
UAW President Shawn Fain instructed Reuters final week that the union was getting expressions of curiosity in organizing from many Tesla employees.
The Elon Musk-led firm, which enjoys an working revenue benefit over different automakers, has not introduced any wage hikes within the U.S.
Volkswagen’s pay enhance is efficient from December, with a compressed wage development timeline starting in February.
