{"id":1481235,"date":"2024-02-04T14:34:07","date_gmt":"2024-02-04T14:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jacobin.com\/2024\/02\/foreign-automakers-south-unions-racism\/"},"modified":"2024-02-06T10:54:12","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T10:54:12","slug":"why-foreign-carmakers-set-up-shop-in-the-us-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2024\/02\/04\/why-foreign-carmakers-set-up-shop-in-the-us-south\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Foreign Carmakers Set Up Shop in the US South"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1978, Volkswagen (VW) became the first foreign-owned company to manufacture cars in the United States since Rolls-Royce in the 1930s, setting up shop in Westmoreland, Pennsylvania. \u201cThis is one of the most important organized victories in years for the UAW,\u201d said United Auto Workers (UAW) president Doug Fraser after VW workers voted 865 to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/jacobin.com\/2024\/02\/foreign-automakers-south-unions-racism\/\">Jacobin<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1978, Volkswagen (VW) became the first foreign-owned company to manufacture cars in the United States since Rolls-Royce in the 1930s, setting up shop in Westmoreland, Pennsylvania. \u201cThis is one of the most important organized victories in years for &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":737,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481235"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/737"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1481235"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1484953,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481235\/revisions\/1484953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1481235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1481235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1481235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}