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UAW Supporters Say Nissan Threatens Plant Closing
Pro-union workers at Nissan Motor Co.'s Canton, Miss., assembly plant tell the Associated Press that company officials have threatened to shutter the factory if employees there vote for union representation.
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Pro-union workers at Nissan Motor Co.'s Canton, Miss., assembly plant tell the Associated Press that company officials have threatened to shutter the factory if employees there vote for union representation.
Nissan denies that it has intimidated employees, which would be a violation of federal law. The company says managers met with hourly staff twice last year to discuss "what it means to be unionized."
The United Auto Workers union is trying to organize workers at several factories in the southern U.S. that are owned by foreign carmakers, including the Nissan facility. The union needs to obtain signed requests for an election from at least 30% of a plant's hourly employees.
UAW President Bob King originally aimed to unionize at least one foreign-owned car factory by the end of 2011. Now King hopes to attain that goal before he retires in mid-2014.
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