In a previous life, I was personally acquainted with one of the Toyota executives who was in charge of one of their early projects to locate a transplant factory in Tennessee.
The U.A.W. hammered them not only for rejecting unionization, but for trash canning thousands of applications from unemployed U.A.W. people. The Toyota exec told me the company took great pains not to contaminate the transplant with the U.A.W. and was not about to inflict a new project with that virus. It was much easier to hire young southern men with zero experience and train them from the ground up than deal with the union mentality of experienced workers from up north.
Honda in Ohio was the same way.
They wouldn’t even talk to you if you were a salary person in a UAW plant.
Smart guys, they’ve been very successful.
BMW hired Honda studs when they set up their S. Carolina plant.