Six Southern Republican Governors Warn of UAW’s Unionization of Auto Sector

‘We’ve seen it play out this way every single time a foreign automaker plant has been unionized; not one of those plants remains in operation,” they said.

Members of the United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 230 and their supporters walk the picket line in front of the Chrysler Corporate Parts Division in Ontario, Calif., on Sept. 26, 2023. Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images

Six Republican governors from southern states are warning against unionization of the auto industry by the United Auto Workers (UAW), saying that this puts their “states’ jobs in jeopardy.”

The governors “are highly concerned about the unionization campaign driven by misinformation and scare tactics that the UAW has brought into our states,” they said in a joint statement on April 16.