UAW condemns Hyundai over worker safety after Georgia factory raid

The UAW Automobile Labor Union (UAW) condemns Hyundai to what it calls a “shameful record of workers’ safety” after a migration raid at the electric car battery factory in Georgia.

Most of 475 people were detained on September 4 under their doubt that they were In the United States illegally With at least 300 South Korea – they were sub -contractor employees, instead of direct employees, according to LGES and Hyundai Motor Company, according to Reuters.

UAW said in a press statement on Tuesday: “For years, Hyundai-including its joint projects and suppliers who work in its factories-angles on the standard safety reserves of the industry, refused to respect the right of workers in the union, and to rely on the exploitation of migrant work to build its factories and supply chains,” UAW said in a press statement on Tuesday.

The union says that three workers in Hyundai Tofua are in the job in the past two years, and called on federal agencies including the Department of Occupational Safety and Health and the National Workers’ Relations Council “to increase safety in the workplace.”

The first Hyundai, 3 rows “EV under production at the new Georgia Factory

“Unfortunately, the federal military campaign against these workers hurts safety in Hyundai. The workers are not the problem. The exploitative companies,” said UAW statement. “UAW will always stand with all workers-migrants and born both-against unsafe companies and military attacks on our workplaces.”

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Euisun Chung, CEO of Hyundai Motor Group, and Governor Brian Kimb signs Hyundai Ioniq 5 EV at the great opening of the Hyundai Metaplant America on March 26, 2025, in Ibil, Georgia. (Hyundai Motor Group / Fox News)

Hyundai did not immediately respond to Fox’s business inquiries.

President Donald Trump will meet South Korean President Lee Jay Meong at the Oval Office, in the White House, in Washington, DC, August 25, 2025. (Brian Snyder / Photo File / Reuters)

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The detainees have now been released in Georgia and sent to their home country, after South Korea and the United States have reached an agreement.

Charles Cretz from Fox News Digitter contributed to this report.