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Victory for UAW at South Charleston, West Virginia

5 March 1999

Victory for UAW at South Charleston, West Virginia

    CLEVELAND, March 4 -- Warren Davis, Director of Region 2, UAW
and International Union Executive Board Member announced today the winning of
the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) election at the Mayflower
Corporation's South Charleston Stamping Plant by a substantial margin.  UAW
Region 2 represents over 80,000 members in an area that encompasses West
Virginia, Ohio and Pennsylvania.  Mayflower Corporation is a transnational
corporation that has a workforce of 750 people employed at its South
Charleston Stamping Plant.
    South Charleston Stamping provides numerous stamped metal parts for
various corporations of the auto industry.  The ballot count by the National
Labor Relations Board was completed at 1:00 a.m. this morning.
    Davis said, "The victory in this election is a victory for the workers at
the South Charleston facility.  It is fitting that the workers have decided to
join the Union that will work vigorously to negotiate a contract for them with
a very powerful corporation.  The workforce, itself, saw through the
corporation's smears against the forming of a union at that site and the UAW
intends, upon certification by the National Labor Relations Board, to begin
the process of negotiating a strong, fair, equitable contract for all of our
members at that worksite."