Overview
- The tentative pact covers about 3,200 hourly workers at Volkswagen’s Chattanooga, Tennessee assembly plant.
- Terms include a 20% across-the-board wage increase, lower out-of-pocket health costs, and additional paid time off.
- Each worker would receive a $6,550 ratification bonus and $2,550 annual bonuses for the life of the agreement.
- Job-security and workplace language adds protections against outsourcing and unilateral cuts, enforceable safety standards with union representatives, fair scheduling, and grievance safeguards.
- Volkswagen confirmed the agreement, while the UAW frames it as a breakthrough for Southern organizing after Chattanooga workers voted to unionize by about 73% in 2024.