Posted on 08/04/2017 11:17:36 PM PDT by SouthReb
In a test of labor’s ability to expand its reach in the South, workers at a Nissan plant in Mississippi have overwhelmingly rejected a bid to unionize.
Out of roughly 3,500 employees at the Canton-based plant who voted Thursday and Friday, more than 60 percent opposed the union. It was an emphatic coda to a yearslong organizing effort underwritten by the United Automobile Workers, which has been repeatedly frustrated in its efforts to organize major auto plants in the region.
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I have owned 6 Nissans and 1 Infinity over the years and they have all been great. Still have my youngest son first car, a Sentra as a back up car. He put it through hell, has 217,000 miles on it, and still drives like a champ. And my Titan 4X4 truck is also great. And at trade in time I have always been quite ahead of the game with all Nissans. Although, don’t know if I’ll be buying any more Nissan products since in the latest email from Nissan they informed me that Nissan proudly supports homo Pride.
You can get out of paying union dues, but still have to pay the portion attributed to negotiations.
But you can bet any teacher even asking about this will be on the administration’s radar, looking for reasons to terminate them.
There’s a reason why many automotive plants are moving to the south. A lot of it is taxation, but another is the workers’ attitude. They’re not interested in being unionized and having the unions raise their salaries beyond the price the company can pay. And then everybody goes bankrupt.
That is awesome! Way to go Alabama.
Is there a union-built vehicle that is on anyone's top-10 quality list? I'm thinking no.
Union NO
“...the federal unions are not allowed collective bargaining privileges.”
That will be welcome news to the US Postal Service in dealing with their unions.
I drive a Nissan from that Canton, MS plant. Treating me well so far. I also drive a Nissan from their non-union plant in TN.
the young turks sure seemed confident the vote would go their way.
snicker...snicker :)
>> That will be welcome news to the US Postal Service in dealing with their unions <<
The USPS is set up now as a sort of semi-private corporation with its own Board of Directors, and yes, the employee unions have collective bargaining powers.
But even though it’s not an optimal situation, at least the USPS now has a lot of competition from email, FedEx, UPS, Amazon direct delivery, etc. This competition helps to restrain what the unions can demand.
On the other hand, as for the agencies that are 100% under federal control, there is no collective bargaining by unions for wages and benefits. And that, my FRiend, is a VERY good thing, as I hope you will agree.
Mississippi Toyota/UAW ping.
Oops, Nissan ping
Quest minivan is roomy. Check it out.
The key factor is free enterprise vs. government sector.
If union demands make doing business economically infeasible, owners of private operations are free to relocate, or even dissolve, and invest elsewhere. Thus, in the private sector, even the most powerful and coercive unions cannot escape competitive market forces.
Government unions are not subject to competitive market forces because taxpayers who fund government operations are not free to withdraw their “investment”.
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