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TIMELINE-Volkswagen Tennessee plant workers vote on UAW membership

After a series of victories against the Detroit Three automakers last fall, United Auto Workers (UAW) President Shawn Fain is now trying to use his influence to organize other U.S. auto factories that have stayed out of the union's ambit. The UAW has tried and failed for years to organize nonunion U.S. auto factories, most of them built by Asian and European automakers in southern U.S. states where so-called right-to-work labor laws make it optional for workers to pay union dues.