UAW’s Top-Down Organizing Campaign at Big Three Supplier Stalled by Intense Employee Opposition Employees at one of Johnson Controls’ largest plants revolt against joint employer-union pressure to unionize through giveaways of employee personal information and abusive card-check process Detroit, Mich. (June 13, 2003) – Facing stiff opposition from workers at a major Johnson Controls, Inc. (JCI) facility in Athens, Tennessee, United Auto Workers (UAW) union organizers have abandoned current efforts to impose union representation. According to National Right to Work Foundation sources, union operatives only obtained signatures from 10 percent of the employees at the plant. Last year, pressured by...