UAW Launches Smear Campaign Against Nissan Claiming “International Labor Rights" Violator

The limit to United Auto Workers President Bob King’s conciliatory charm offensive begins somewhere outside a town called Canton.

There, a union anxious to bolster its sagging dues base with the ranks of Nissan Motor Co.’s hourly workforce is mounting a campaign stretching from that small Mississippi town to Brazil, Paris, Tokyo and South Africa — all in an attempt to brand the Japanese automaker a violator of “international labor rights,” according to a report issued this week in Washington.

“Nissan is not living up to the standards of worker treatment enshrined in International Labor Standards core labor standards, U.N. human rights principles and other international norms,” Lance Compa, senior lecturer at Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations, said in a statement under the banner “Look Under the Shine of Nissan.”

Agent009 - 10/10/2013 10:17:48 AM

+1 Boost

Wonder how well that will sit with VW and the UAW efforts there.