Autoworkers union celebrates breakthrough win in Tennessee and takes aim at more plants in the South

DALLAS — The United Auto Workers’ overwhelming election victory at a Volkswagen plant in Tennessee is giving the union hope that it can make broader inroads in the South, the least unionized part of the country.The UAW won a stunning 73% of the vote at VW after losing elections in 2014 and 2019. It was the union’s first win in a Southern assembly plant owned by a foreign automaker.Union President Shawn Fain said the pundits all told him that the UAW couldn’t win in the South.“But you all…