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The article mentions We Rise, a coalition of organizations including the Carroll Gardens Nanny Association, the National Domestic Workers Alliance, and the Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations.

Erica Groshen, senior labor market advisor at ILR, discusses housing costs.

“I don’t know that they have spent the same amount of time and investment in Vance, Alabama, as they did over the years in Chattanooga,” Art Wheaton, director of labor studies, said, comparing the Mercedes and VW efforts.

“A lot’s at stake — whether they can use the momentum from the VW vote to win at Mercedes and then try and organize other transplants,” said Professor Harry Katz. “But they’re going to face strong resistance by management.”

“It speaks to a growing frustration among workers and also a contagion in labor activity, which is when one group of workers stands up and inspires others,” said Kate Bronfenbrenner, the director of Labor Education Research.

Organizing workers at Mercedes will be tougher than it was at Volkswagen’s plant in Tennessee, largely because the UAW has not previously recruited enough workers to earn a vote at the Mercedes plant, said Art Wheaton, director of labor studies.