Posted on 08/04/2017 11:17:36 PM PDT by SouthReb
My chances of buying a US built Nissan for my next car just increased dramatically.
Public sector unions, which are not unions at all, but an organized money extraction agency to bully elected officials into paying them ever more for decreasing output of work, using funds collected from taxpayers and other revenue sources, cannot be fairly compared to private sector unions.
Private sector unions have long outlived their usefulness, in that most successful private employers are well aware that unless they treat their employees fairly (the original reason unions came into existence), they will suffer in the marketplace, as their best employees migrate elsewhere, and only the worst remain, who then organize into unions, eventually starving the private business into extinction.
Henry Ford kept the auto unions out of his plants when all the other automobile manufacturers were succumbing to their demands, by one simple expedient. Whatever the unions were demanding for wages or side benefits for their members, Ford would offer just a little bit more, so his employees had more take-home pay than the comparable employees in other shops, then he told the union organizers, that sure, if his people wanted to vote in a union, their pay would be DROPPED to whatever level was being paid in those other shops.
In 1937, at the gates to the Ford Plant in River Rouge, union organizers were severely beaten by the members of the “Ford Service Department”. The La Follette Civil Liberties Union (predecessors to ACLU) charged the Ford Motor Company and their head of security, Harry Bennett, with violations of the Wagner Act, a New Deal piece of legislation which was used to enforce the unionization of industry all over America. As the suit wound its way through the courts, Henry could see the writing on the wall, and in 1941, Henry capitulated to the unions. Nobody ever proved the union thugs were responsible, but the collapse of the resistance by Ford paved the way for widespread regimentation of the work force.
I’m looking at a Nissan SUV soon...
Good for them!!!
Honda also builds in Mississippi and their vehicles are exponentially better than Nissan, IMO.
Owned one Nissan years ago, it was the biggest POS ever. Ex wife's Honda Odyssey mini-van has 150,000+ on it and it still drives like new. Build quality is excellent.
The current union boss, Richard Trumka, as president of the UMWA formulated those destructive tactics that can not be actually blamed on the union.
The tactics are by today’s standards terrorism
Richard Trumka is in fact a terrorist
York, PA knows! When the union raised so much longterm hell, that CATERPILLAR finally acted upon their warnings and moved south. Then the union at Harley Davidson came within a froghair of doing the same thing. Now, nationwide, the democRAT abettors of the unions are causing millions to lose their entry level jobs, by demanding skilled technician-level pay.
One thing Southerners don’t like is thugs taking the money that they earn.
Stopped in Canton MS once; there was a museum of stuff from a couple films done in the area like My Dog Skip and I think Oprah Winfrey came from there. I remember hearing MS and AL had some car plants including Toyota.
Many, if not most of the workers there in MS are black...yet they STILL GET IT, and for that reason there is hope...but it will take GOP leadership able to speak Jive (as they see it).
Employers usually end up with the unions they deserve. Nissan must be treating its employees fairly.
Our Honda Pilot and Ridgeline are American made as well.
You are probably both right.
“Manufacturing” is the key word in your response. SEIU and AFSCME are government unions not manufacturing unions. Govt unions seem to be doing too well in all regions.
the Mercedes g and c class Honda odyssey and several Hyundai’s are built in Alabama and the as well but i dont know the union status of the plants
FAntastic news!
And don’t forget that most of the workers at Nissan’s Canton plant are African-Americans.
You have to separate public and private sector unions
AFGE = American Federation of Government Employees...public sector
AFSCME = American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees...public sector
SEIU = Service Employees International Union...public and private sector...very big in government health care
Those three unions do well anywhere there is government.
“In no way should it be considered a defeat.”
— UAW president Dennis Williams, after the UAW, despite a long and furious organizing campaign, lost a vote to unionize a Mississippi Nissan plant, with 63 percent of the workers voting against joining the union.
So what should be considered a defeat, Mr. Williams? 64 percent voting against you?
Management probably told craft that Japan don’t play that, Homey - and if they vote to organize the plant will be moved within weeks to Japan - IOW UAW Sayanora!
No, not Japan. Mexico.
Mexico is a major auto manufacturing nation with product being exported world wide
>> Don’t kid yourselves, AFGE, AFSCME and the SEIU do just fine in Mississippi <<
Uh, no. You need to check your facts. Mississippi is one of those sensible places where collective bargaining via unions is forbidden for most state government employees.
. . . and rank and file heard it very clearly. Uh Union, uh, no!
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