To get out of the deadlock with Nissan and maybe one day organize the group’s plant in Canton, Mississippi, the United Auto Workers have joined forces with IndustriALL, the global union, and requested mediation by the U.S. State Department a procedure in line with the OECD’s guidelines for multinational enterprises.
One week after officially dropping the complaint on employee representation at Volkswagen’s Tennessee plant (see article No. 8345), the UAW is once again focusing on Nissan’s Mississippi plant. This U-turn feels like the one that took place 2 years ago, when the union decided to focus all its effort in Canton, at Nissan, because the situation was at a standstill in Chattanooga, at VW (see article No. 120395). However, today, the point isn’t solely to try and prompt a vote on employee...
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