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Some of the best-known figures in the state were in Tuscaloosa Tuesday morning for the world reveal of new SUV models from Mercedes‑Benz as the automaker celebrates making its five millionth vehicle in West Alabama.

A volunteer team made mostly of employees from the Mercedes Benz U.S. International Plant was in west Tuscaloosa Tuesday morning to raise the walls on a new Habitat for Humanity house in their Milestone Neighborhood.

A German logistics giant that employs 100 people in Tuscaloosa County said there will be no winners after President Donald Trump announced a new 25 percent tariff on all car imports.

Tuscaloosa's largest industrial job creator is expanding again and will build a new $16 million logistics facility here which is expected to create 80 well-paying jobs.

The city of Tuscaloosa on Friday celebrated the completion and opening of a new, state-of-the-art fire station that will serve two massive Mercedes-Benz plants.

The United Auto Workers want another shot at unionizing the Mercedes plant in Tuscaloosa County and have asked the National Labor Relations Board for a new vote after workers at the plant declined to join earlier this month.

Shawn Fain, the president of the United Auto Workers union, pledged that their fight at the Mercedes-Benz plant in Tuscaloosa County is not over after workers there voted against unionizing this week.

This op-ed was submitted for publication by former Alabama governor Jim Folsom, who was in office when Tuscaloosa successfully recruited Mercedes-Benz to build their then-$300 million plant here in 1993.

Federico Kochlowski, currently Vice President of Operations at North America at Mercedes-Benz U.S. International, will assume the role effective May 1st, 2024