---
title: "United Auto Workers Rejected by Workers at Chinese Plant in Ohio"
description: "The union's game plan of organizing foreign-owned plants didn't go well in its latest effort."
date: "2017-11-10"
modified: "2017-11-10"
authors:
  - name: "Kate Gibson"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/kate-gibson"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/article/15961/united-auto-workers-rejected-by-workers-at-chinese-plant-in-ohio"
categories:
  - "News"
tags:
  - "China"
  - "Dayton Ohio"
  - "Fuyao Glass"
  - "General Motors"
  - "Ohio"
  - "UAW"
  - "union"
---

# United Auto Workers Rejected by Workers at Chinese Plant in Ohio

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A strategy by the United Auto Workers to organize foreign-owned plants took a big hit this week, with workers at a Chinese-owned factory in southwestern [Ohio](<https://www.thedrive.com/article/10009/ford-lays-off-130-workers-from-ohio-truck-plant>) soundly rejecting membership in the union, the UAW said.

An estimated 1,500 workers at the Fuyao Glass Industry Group plant in Moraine, a suburb of Dayton, voted union representation down by an almost two-to-one margin, with 868 votes against and 444 votes for, the UAW [said on Thursday.](<https://uaw.org/workers-ohio-glass-plant-thwarted-following-fierce-campaign-intimidation-anti-labor-tactics/>)

“Fuyao workers fighting for a voice in their workplace were unable to win against a barrage of anti-labor tactics and intimidation by management at the Ohio glass plant,” the UAW said in a statement.

Fuyao Glass, which opened the plant in Moraine last year as part of a $1 billion expansion in the U.S., supplies automotive glass, or windshields, side windows, and sunroofs, to vehicle manufacturers including General Motors, Ford, and Toyota.

Fuyao spent about $450 million converting what had been a GM factory that closed in 2008 after almost three decades.

The UAW last month said workers at the Ohio plant filed a request with the National Labor Relations Board to form a union, with the move coming after the UAW failed to get enough votes to union workers at a Nissan plant in [Canton](<https://www.thedrive.com/article/13236/uaw-experiences-crushing-defeat-at-nissans-canton-plant>), Mississippi, in August.

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