United Auto Workers-represented employees at Volkswagen AG's plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, plan to vote on strike authorization next week following months of contract bargaining that's failed to yield an agreement, the union said.

The Detroit-based union won the right to represent more than 4,000 hourly workers at the plant in a historic election in April 2024 . It was the first foreign-owned plant in the South to organize. But after more than 13 months of negotiations, a first labor pact still hasn't been finalized.

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