UAW Targeting Nissan's Mississippi Plant
Tennessee is so 2011 for the UAW. The hot new locale for foreign plant organizing campaigns is Mississippi, where the UAW is trying to organize workers at a Nissan truck plant.
The union has tried to organize before – campaigns in 2005 and 2007 ended with the UAW unable to even organize a vote. According to Reuters, the UAW has been working over the last 6 months to unionize the plant in Canton, which builds the Nissan Titan, Quest and Altima.
Union President Bob King apparently feels that an automaker backlash against organizing will drive workers to unionize. History, of course, is not on the UAW’s side, with foreign plants located in the South being famously hostile to the UAW. King accused Nissan of mis-representing the UAW to workers during information sessions held at the plant, but a Nissan spokesman told AN
“We’re giving them factual information about the history of the UAW and the lack of success that they have had with their employees and with the companies that they’ve represented…”
To say that the UAW has an uphill battle against them is an understatement. Mississippi’s governor has even said that intervention on his part would be possible if the UAW tried to organize at the Nissan plant.
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As someone who lives in the state in question, the ignorance displayed in some of the posts here is appalling. The stereotyping really doesn't make you appear any better than the people you're painting with such a broad brush.
As much as I cant stand to see the UAW set foot in any in a Nissan plant, I don't think the governor of Mississippi had any right to intercede in any legal organization effort. The last time I recall this type of "government intervention" was in Germany in the 1930's.
AMA (American Medical Association). Basically, the doctor union that does not receive the negative propaganda dispensed from an array of sources that the unions for those loathsome low-class commoner scum vermin who do not know their proper low position within the pyramid-shaped socio-economic hierarchy. Commies!!!!!!!!!!! Destroyers of "capitalism." AMA cuddles up to Congress often. Limit enrollment to medical schools, artificially raise doctor income. But that is all-American. A small amount of easily-done Web research will reveal what prompts my anger. So many bleating citizen-sheep; well-indoctrinated via the life-long brainwashing all of us are immersed within. Love it or leave it.
Mississippi is a right to work state. So even if the union gets in how many pay dues?