Complex sentence: Workers at the Volkswagen Chattanooga Assembly Plant in Tennessee reject unionizing by a vote of 712--626, and the result was considered by many media outlets as a defeat for labor unions in the United States.
Split into simpler sentences: Workers at the Volkswagen Chattanooga Assembly Plant in Tennessee reject unionizing by a vote of 712--626. The result is considered by many media outlets to be a defeat for labor unions in the United States.