Isn’t miss a right to work state? Let’s hope they vote against the UAW there. The last car l bought l made sure it was built in a right to work state.
The Nissan workers at Canton MS are mostly African-Americans. They are probably more union-friendly than are the workers in a place like Chattanooga or Spring Hill TN, who are mainly whites. If the Nissan workers vote to install the UAW at the Canton plant, you can bet that other auto manufacturers will take care not to locate new plants in areas of the South that have majority black populations.
In other words, mountain regions yes, cotton belt no.
Anyone who wants to should be able to join a union, without fear of termination for that reason alone. It’s a free country.
And by the same token, no one should be forced to join a union. And that’s where the problem is. Too many states are closed-shop states. If a majority of your fellow workers votes to form a union, you must join that union, and you must pay union dues. That is not a characteristic of a free society.
(Oh, and some closed-shop states allow for a “fair share” option, where you don’t have to join the union. But you still have to pay something like 90% of the union dues. How’s that for nonsense?)
I know people that paid union dues to work at a paper mill in the town where I live. The paper mill closed and they union didn’t do a thing for the people that had paid dues for many years.
The people I know say no way they would ever belong to a union again. They just took part of their paycheck and offered nothing in return.
Because working for $10 less an hour is so much better.
$58 at General Motors
$57 at Ford
$48 at Fiat-Chrysler
$49 Honda
$48 Toyota
$42 Nissan
$41 Hyundai-Kia
The $10 difference is about $250 per car.
Reference is from march 2015
https://www.autoblog.com/2015/03/29/foreign-domestic-automakers-wage-gap/
GM CEO $13,500 per hour.
Ford CEO $9,015 per hour
Crysler CEO $35,000 per hour.
Union v. Non-union, right to work v. Non right to work means nothing. The price of the car the consumer pays NEVER goes down...Only more profits.