Mercedes-Benz (ETR: MBG) has recruited Reverend Matthew Wilson, a pastor from Marion, Alabama, to dissuade workers at its Tuscaloosa factory complex and electric battery plant from joining the United Auto Workers (UAW) union.
As the 5,200 employees began voting on Monday on whether to unionize, they were met with a company text message that tried to remind them about the importance of keeping work separate from community and family and more than suggested that a union would have a negative impact beyond the plant walls.
The union drive at Mercedes-Benz is fueled by a culmination of grievances, including the pandemic, the introduction of a tier-two wage system, and the layoffs of temporary workers who were promised permanent positions. Rev. Wilsons involvement in the anti-union campaign has of course raised eyebrows, with some pointing out that large corporations often rely on church leaders to preach an anti-union message in exchange for financial support.
The UAW has filed six charges against Mercedes-Benz for various anti-union practices, including disciplining employees for discussing unionization, banning the distribution of union materials, and making statements suggesting that union activity is futile.
Rev. Wilsons personal interactions with pro-union workers on the assembly line have also been called into question, with some employees reporting that he disparaged civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and attempted to instill fear about the financial consequences of striking.
Martin Luther King was an elitist classist who did not care about the average American, Rev. Wilson told Detrick Lewis, a veteran employee who has been working on the assembly line in the body shop at Mercedes-Benz since 2014. He had asked the reverend how he felt about Martin Luther King, Jr.
Despite the companys efforts, many workers remain committed to the union cause, citing recent successes at other auto plants, such as the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, where workers voted to join the UAW. The election at Mercedes-Benz runs through May 17, with the vote count scheduled for 9:45 a.m. Central time.
Martin Luther King was an elitist classist who did not care about the average AmericanSays the scumsucking patsy working for Mercedes-Benz?
Says the scumsucking patsy working for Mercedes-Benz?
Martin Luther King was an elitist classist who did not care about the average American,
Martin Luther King was an elitist classist who did not care about the average American, Rev. Wilson told Detrick Lewis, a veteran employee who has been working on the assembly line in the body shop at Mercedes-Benz since 2014. He had asked the reverend how he felt about Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King was an elitist classist who did not care about the average American, Rev. Wilson told Detrick Lewis, a veteran employee who has been working on the assembly line in the body shop at Mercedes-Benz since 2014. He had asked the reverend how he felt about Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Do not take advantage of a hired worker who is poor and needy, whether that worker is a fellow Israelite or a foreigner residing in one of your towns. Pay them their wages each day before sunset, because they are poor and are counting on it. Otherwise they may cry to the Lord against you, and you will be guilty of sin." Deuteronomy 24:14-15.
The people who invoke God and scripture in conservative causes should try and read the damn book every once in a while.
well this along with other anti-union tactics that the Alabama plant used, has workedunion busting firms should be illegal
the employees voted against joining UAW
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/uaws-influence-tested-pivotal-alabama-mercedes-benz-factory-union-vote-2024-05-17/
well this along with other anti-union tactics that the Alabama plant used, has worked
the employees voted against joining UAW
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/uaws-influence-tested-pivotal-alabama-mercedes-benz-factory-union-vote-2024-05-17/
union busting firms should be illegal
American Evangelicals are less Christians and more Christian nationalists who wants a theocracy. They actually defend greed by justifying everything as "God's will", thus the televangelist who spends millions on a private jet and megachurch? It's okay, just God's will.
They'd never get away with this shit in Germany. Unions have seats on the board there.That would sadly be an even more effective argument for some people for 'reasons'.
The US is the only country where Mercedes workers are not unionised.
That would sadly be an even more effective argument for some people for 'reasons'.
"What?! Do you want to be like Europeans ? Do you to turn this place into Europe ?!"
"Do not take advantage of a hired worker who is poor and needy, whether that worker is a fellow Israelite or a foreigner residing in one of your towns. Pay them their wages each day before sunset, because they are poor and are counting on it. Otherwise they may cry to the Lord against you, and you will be guilty of sin." Deuteronomy 24:14-15."Ok but he kicked people out of the temple once so that proves he's not the namby pamby pacifist commie that the left keeps trying to turn him into!"
The people who invoke God and scripture in conservative causes should try and read the damn book every once in a while.
Yeah, those people usually believe in American exceptionalism/nationalism and that it's virtuous to not emulate the best part of other countries "just cause that's what makes us special".That's one way to keep the poors voting against UHC, paid maternity leave, and any number of basic rights they would enjoy practically anywhere else in the world (not just socialist Europe!).
"Ok but he kicked people out of the temple once so that proves he's not the namby pamby pacifist commie that the left keeps trying to turn him into!"
That's one way to keep the poors voting against UHC, paid maternity leave, and any number of basic rights they would enjoy practically anywhere else in the world (not just socialist Europe!).
The people who invoke God and scripture in conservative causes should try and read the damn book every once in a while.
Rev. Wilsons involvement in the anti-union campaign has of course raised eyebrows, with some pointing out that large corporations often rely on church leaders to preach an anti-union message in exchange for financial support.
I truly believe it should be required by law that people who say such stupid and transparently bullshit things like this get their ass beat and the world would be a much better place for it