AUTOS

German Union to Fight BMW Non-Union U.S. Plant: Germany’s huge metalworkers’ union said it will fight BMW’s plan to build a new auto factory in South Carolina without union representation for the workers. IG Metall, which claims that its 3.6 million members make it the biggest union in the Western world, accused BMW of deciding to build in the United States on political rather than economic grounds, to the detriment of Germany’s industrial base. It said it would cooperate with the U.S. auto workers’ union to see that the plant is unionized. Munich-based BMW announced in June that it had chosen to build its first U.S. plant in South Carolina with an investment of $250 million.