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Dubai: Du, the Middle East’s telecommunications company, now offers an exclusive mobile package for government sector, the Government Plan. This initiative is unique to the UAE and allows government employees to benefit from a mobile offering tailored to suit their distinctive requirements.

The Government Plan, from du, offers increased national data and minutes allowance, an LTE-enabled mobile device with zero upfront cost and an exclusive number to UAE government employees; furthermore, employees will be provided with an unlimited minutes allowance to call each other within the scope of their work; in addition, du offers them the flexibility to further tailor their mobile packages with add-on bundles, created exclusively for government employees.

“The products and services offered by du are consistently evolving, to satisfy different echelons of our society and promote the value of diversity throughout the nation,” said Fahad Al Hassawi, Chief Commercial Officer, du. “In-line with du’s continued support of the UAE leadership’s vision towards empowering the nation through communication, we designed the Government Plan to enrich the lives of UAE government employees, by catering exclusively to their particular requirements, so that they can continue to do exceptional work for our country.,”

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Tennessee Volkswagen employees overwhelmingly vote to join United Auto Workers union

Volkswagen workers in Chattanooga, Tennessee, voted overwhelmingly in favor of joining the United Auto Workers union. During a watch party, employees said they were emboldened by the union’s successful confrontation with Detroit’s major automakers last year. (AP video by Kristin M. Hall)

Volkswagen automobile plant employee Vicky Holloway celebrates as she watches the results of a UAW union vote, late Friday, April 19, 2024, in Chattanooga, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

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Volkswagen automobile plant employee Robert Crump, left, hi-fives fellow employee Kelvin Allen as they watch the results of a UAW union vote, late Friday, April 19, 2024, in Chattanooga, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

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A VW logo is seen outside the Volkswagen automobile plant in Chattanooga, Tenn., Friday, April 19, 2024. Workers at the plant finish voting Friday night on whether to join the United Auto Workers union. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

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Volkswagen automobile plant employee Charlie Brown waits for the results of a UAW union vote, late Friday, April 19, 2024, in Chattanooga, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

Volkswagen automobile plant employee Vicky Holloway becomes emotional as she celebrates after employees voted to join the UAW union Friday, April 19, 2024, in Chattanooga, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

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Volkswagen automobile plant employee James Robinson celebrates after employees voted to join the UAW union Friday, April 19, 2024, in Chattanooga, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

Volkswagen automobile plant employee Stephanie Romack celebrates after employees voted to join the UAW union Friday, April 19, 2024, in Chattanooga, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

Volkswagen automobile plant employee Duke Brandon, right, celebrates after employees voted to join the UAW union Friday, April 19, 2024, in Chattanooga, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

Volkswagen automobile plant employee Vicky Holloway, left, and union supporter Jackie Camper celebrate as they watch the results of a UAW union vote, late Friday, April 19, 2024, in Chattanooga, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

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Volkswagen automobile plant employees arrive for a watch party to see the results of their union election Friday, April 19, 2024, in Chattanooga, Tenn. Workers finished voting Friday night on whether to join the United Auto Workers union. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

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Volkswagen automobile plant employee Alvin Brookfield arrives for a watch party to see the results of their union election Friday, April 19, 2024, in Chattanooga, Tenn. Workers finished voting Friday night on whether to join the United Auto Workers union. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

Volkswagen automobile plant employee Charles Kimbrough arrives for a watch party to see the results of their union election Friday, April 19, 2024, in Chattanooga, Tenn. Workers finished voting Friday night on whether to join the United Auto Workers union. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

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CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) — Employees at a Volkswagen factory in Chattanooga, Tennessee, overwhelmingly voted to join the United Auto Workers union Friday in a historic first test of the UAW’s renewed effort to organize nonunion factories.

The union wound up getting 2,628 votes, or 73% of the ballots cast, compared with only 985 who voted no in an election run by the National Labor Relations Board.

Both sides have five business days to file objections to the election, the NLRB said. If there are none, the election will be certified and VW and the union must “begin bargaining in good faith.”

President Joe Biden, who backed the UAW and won its endorsement, said the union’s win follows major union gains across the country including actors, port workers, Teamsters members, writers and health care workers.

“Together, these union wins have helped raise wages and demonstrate once again that the middle-class built America and that unions are still building and expanding the middle class for all workers,” he said in a statement late Friday.

Twice in recent years, workers at the Chattanooga plant have rejected union membership in plantwide votes. Most recently, they handed the UAW a narrow defeat in 2019 as federal prosecutors were breaking up a bribery-and-embezzlement scandal at the union.

But this time, they voted convincingly for the UAW, which is operating under new leadership directly elected by members for the first time and basking in a successful confrontation with Detroit’s major automakers.

The union’s pugnacious new president, Shawn Fain , was elected on a platform of cleaning up after the scandal and turning more confrontational with automakers. An emboldened Fain, backed by Biden, led the union in a series of strikes last fall against Detroit’s automakers that resulted in lucrative new contracts .

The new contracts raised union wages by a substantial one-third, arming Fain and his organizers with enticing new offers to present to workers at Volkswagen and other companies.

Next up for a union vote are workers at Mercedes factories near Tuscaloosa, Alabama, who will vote on UAW representation in May.

Fain said he was not surprised by the size of the union’s win Friday after the two previous losses.

“I think it’s the reality of where we are and the times that we’re in,” he said Friday night. “Workers are fed up in being left behind.”

The win, he said, will help the growing unionization effort in the rest of the country.

“This gives workers everywhere else the indication that it’s OK,” Fain said. “All we’ve heard for years is we can’t win here, you can’t do this in the South, and you can.”

Worker Vicky Holloway of Chattanooga was among dozens of cheering workers celebrating at an electrical workers union hall near the VW plant. She said the overwhelming vote for the union came this time because her colleagues realized they could have better benefits and a voice in the workplace.

“Right now we have no say,” said Holloway, who has worked at the plant for 13 years and was there for the union’s previous losses. “It’s like our opinions don’t matter.”

In a statement, Volkswagen thanked workers for voting and said 83.5% of the 4,300 production workers cast ballots in the election.

Six Southern governors, including Tennessee’s Bill Lee, warned the workers in a joint statement this week that joining the UAW could cost them their jobs and threaten the region’s economic progress.

But the overwhelming win is a warning to nonunion manufacturers, said Marick Masters, a business professor at Wayne State University in Detroit who studies the union.

“This is going to send a powerful message to all of those companies that the UAW is knocking at the door, and if they want to remain nonunion, they’ve got to step up their game,” Masters said.

He expects other nonunion automakers to become more aggressive at the plants, and that anti-union politicians will step up their efforts to fight the union.

Shortly after the Detroit contracts were ratified, Volkswagen and other nonunion companies handed their workers big pay raises.

Last fall, Volkswagen raised production worker pay by 11%, lifting top base wages to $32.40 per hour, or just over $67,000 per year. VW said its pay exceeds the median household income for the Chattanooga area, which was $54,480 last May, according to the U.S. Labor Department.

But under the UAW contracts, top production workers at GM, for instance, now earn $36 an hour, or about $75,000 a year excluding benefits and profit sharing. By the end of the contract in 2028, top-scale GM workers would make over $89,000.

The VW plant will be the first the UAW has represented at a foreign-owned automaking plant in the South. It will not, however, be the first union auto assembly plant in the South. The UAW represents workers at two Ford assembly plants in Kentucky and two GM factories in Tennessee and Texas, as well as some heavy-truck manufacturing plants.

Also, more than three decades ago, the UAW was at a Volkswagen factory in New Stanton, Pennsylvania, east of Pittsburgh. VW closed the plant that made small cars in the late 1980s.

Krisher reported from Detroit. Associated Press journalist Chris Megerian contributed from Washington.