The United Auto Workers said Monday it has brought an unfair labor practices complaint against Volkswagen for alleged actions in Chattanooga.
The filing with the National Labor Relations Board, coming after last week's step by a large group of plant employees to try to unionize the factory, said Volkswagen Group of America has been "threatening, restraining and coercing employees from exercising their rights."
According to the union, at an early morning shift change last Thursday, security guards stopped a group of Volkswagen union supporters from distributing flyers to their co-workers at one of the plant gates.
"We've done hand billing at that gate before, and the company has never done anything like this," said Dave Gleeson, a production team member in finish and repair, in a statement. "We were just getting ready to hand out flyers and security came up and told us we couldn't. I asked if this was his decision, and he said 'No, this is coming from way over my head.'"
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