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By JEFF AMY JACKSON, Miss.©2025 GPlusMedia Inc.
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Thunderbird2
So the UAW want to impose a union on workers who don't want one? That's fair - not!
ebisen
UAW, responsible for the destruction of Detroit and the three US manufactures now tries to take on Nissan? I'm all for responsible unions, but UAW is really far from being one, and it closely resembles a Mafia actually...
SenseNotSoCommon
What percentage, though. 10% of a large plant is still many employees.
Frederic Bastiat
Keep the mafioso UAW out.
1glenn
Unions aren't perfect, but the alternative is usually even worse. Much worse.
AlexBec
Americans should demand unions not only from foreign companies, but from their own local American brands which don't believe or support the formation of unions!
chisineko
Certainly seems more reasonable for an unsatisfied worker to go find a job somewhere else.
Clayton K. Char
With all of the government-backed laws both Federal and State protecting workers why would anyone need a union?
toshiko
All US branches of Japanese automakers are not unionized in USA. Nyssa n has plats in Tennessee. Automakers like to modernize factoooooriesvusing push button using movers. Robots carrying heavy parts. Union wantsany labors need laborerwhoo contribute membership dues and pension fund, So big three moved to China. Only Nissan Canton is left to. Be unionized.
Dom Palmer
Well if the union can get more than 50% to sign cards then they can force a vote. Since this hasn't happened it would seem that more than 50% don't want the union.
toshiko
Nissan might move to Tennessee. Moving to Mexico is a bad idea now
badsey3
They are targeting Nissan while the real need for unionization is the food manufacturing industry. Meat and poultry could really use unionized labor to cut down on the massive injuries in those areas.
toshiko
Nissan and other Japanese automakers are aware the largest comer Mitsubishi auto in Illinois welcomed UAW and bankrupted to get out auto manufacturing business. Nissan does not want to follow such fate.
JeffLee
While the engineers and upper management offered models like the Pacer and the exploding Pinto to take on the Germans and Japanese. And then cut capital investment in the face of slow sales of gas-guzzling, pathetically engineered models. Damn those assembly line workers!
Ever since Americans moved away from unions, real wages have stagnated or fallen, corporate profits soared and rich become super-duper rich -- and the US economy slowed down.
American workers need to support unions. How obvious is that?
toshiko
Big three from Detroit were rescued from Government. They are happily operating in China without UAW now with modernized production systems. Workers don't mind they are called computerized machine technitian instead of laborers.
Chop Chop
Thanks god for Sen Bernie Sanders doesn't become President of United State. If he was becoming President and then perhaps, he will be nationalized all manufactures and banks as well as shut down Wall Street. NISSAN had lost almost a billion in Australia because of Union and poor management. If Nissan said it will shut down plant in Canton and then the workers will against Unionists. Most of workers don't care about Union and they don't want to pay Union member fee either. The Union kill the manufacture sector in develop countries. So they went to invest in country like China and Vietnam.
SenseNotSoCommon
(Frame this)
Well said, @JeffLee!
toshiko
Kind hard to keep Nissan in Mississippi. All big Japanese corporations have paranoia on people who claim they're socialist. Nissan has been happy with Tennessee peoples.