Honda, Hyundai and Volkswagen are illegally making an attempt to intimidate employees organizing with the United Auto Staff at three U.S. manufacturing vegetation, the labor union mentioned Monday in saying that it has filed a criticism accusing the automotive makers of unfair labor practices.

Honda employees are being focused and surveilled by administration for pro-union exercise on the firm’s plant in Greensburg, Indiana, whereas VW executives have confiscated and destroyed pro-union supplies on the firm’s plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in keeping with the UAW. At Hyundai’s plant in Montgomery, Alabama, managers have unlawfully banned pro-union supplies in non-work areas outdoors of regular working hours, the union claims. 

“These firms are breaking the regulation in an try to get autoworkers to sit down down and shut up as a substitute of combating for his or her justifiable share,” UAW President Shawn Fain, who was scheduled to livestream an replace to non-union autoworkers Monday at 5 p.m. Jap, mentioned in an announcement.

Volkswagen mentioned it takes such claims critically and that it will examine accordingly. “We’re dedicated to offering clear, clear and well timed data that helps educate our workers and managers on their authorized rights and obligations,” a spokesperson advised CBS MoneyWatch in an e-mail. 

“We’re submitting an unfair labor observe cost towards Honda due to administration illegally telling us to take away union stickers from our hats, and for mainly threatening us with write-ups,” Honda employee Josh Cupit mentioned in a video launched by Extra Excellent Union, a labor advocacy group.

Honda and Hyundai didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark.

The businesses are amongst 10 overseas automakers the UAW mentioned in November it will search to unionize after the labor group reached contract agreements with Detroit’s Large Three automakers.  Though the trio are primarily based abroad, the automakers — in addition to BMW, Nissan, Mazda, Mercedes, Subaru, Toyota and Volvo — have manufacturing vegetation within the U.S. The UAW mentioned its union drive would largely concentrate on factories within the South, the place its recruiting efforts have to date yielded little success.