Hyundai Faces New Pressure Campaign From Southern Labor Groups
- Group wants Hyundai to discuss a community benefits agreement
- Carmaker is building an EV assembly, battery plant in Georgia
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Hyundai Motor Co. is facing a pressure campaign from a coalition of labor groups and civil rights groups in Alabama and Georgia, the home of its new $5.5 billion electric vehicle assembly and battery complex.
The coalition is asking Hyundai to negotiate a community benefits agreement that will “enshrine high-road commitments to workers and their communities in an enforceable agreement,” according to an Aug. 27 letter addressed to the Korean automaker and signed by the Alabama Coalition for Community Benefits and the Georgia branch of the AFL-CIO, a US federation of labor unions.