UAW To Focus On Nissan for Unionization Efforts

As the United Auto Workers ramps up efforts to organize foreign-owned auto factories in the United States, union leaders say they have decided not to name a target — at least not publicly.

But a source told The Detroit News that members of the UAW's executive board voted Tuesday night to focus those efforts on Nissan Motor Co. And UAW President Bob King came out swinging Wednesday, accusing the Japanese automaker of unspecified human rights violations at its factories in Tennessee and Mississippi.

Agent009 - 12/8/2011 12:54:35 PM

+4 Boost

I think in general they are looking for a entitlement mindset in general.

1c3am5 - 12/9/2011 11:58:56 AM

-1 Boost

Detroit being a ghetto has everything to do with the UAW providing middle-class wages that allowed working people to buy homes in the suburbs, rather than massive tenament slums like other US cities.

Detroit-proper may look like a slum, based on fast-food/wal-mart wages. The suburbs are quite another story. In fact, I believe Oakland county is the third richest in the nation.

That's the differece between living there, and getting your "facts" from YouTube.