UAW Tries For Third Time To Unionize Nissan Tennessee Plant

Workers from the Nissan Motor Company auto plant in Smyrna, Tennessee, met with UAW representatives to discuss about organizing at the Japanese automaker’s first U.S. factory.

United Auto Workers is now actively trying to organize workers at two of Nissan’s plants, as talks with workers from Nissan’s Canton, Mississippi, plant have been initiated last spring. According to UAW officials, the two meetings took place on Tuesday in a hall owned by the town of Smyrna and included employees of Yates Services, the firm that hires workers for the plant who are paid less than Nissan workers.


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gkearns56 - 2/28/2013 1:17:27 PM

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Nissan workers word of advice: If you want to be competitive, do NOT UNIONIZE your plant. Those extra cost will have to be passed down to consumers. I will not buy your UAW product. UAW are dinosaurs. There would be additional cost to consumers for all those pot vending machines needed in the break rooms and beer stands in the parks for the frequent UAW members.

1CarSmart1 - 2/28/2013 2:29:30 PM

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Any car assembled by a union worker in the america is junk. SmartEuro unions like AG Metall and SmartAsian workers guilds do not demand pay raises and healthcare, only that their companies build Earth friendly products, which they do.