caliny (1806 posts) August 4, 2017 at 9:04 pm
Vote at Nissan goes down 2244 to 1,307
Vote at @Nissan goes down 2244 NO votes to 1307 YES votes. Statement forthcoming.
— UAW (@UAW) August 5, 2017
UAW President Dennis Williams Statement on @Nissan vote pic.twitter.com/RvsOAMtk8v
— UAW (@UAW) August 5, 2017
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/the-latest-union-voting-closes-at-mississippi-nissan-plant/2017/08/04/f59f36b0-7971-11e7-8c17-533c52b2f014_story.html?utm_term=.95d1a62d7779
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A spokeswoman for Nissan Motor Co. said late Friday that the union lost a pivotal vote by 3,700 eligible workers. Nissan says the final vote total was 2,244 to 1,307.
The union formally charged Nissan with breaking federal law in its anti-union campaign as polls closed. Federal officials could eventually order a new election if they agree. Nissan denies wrongdoing and says the UAW seeks to undermine the vote.
https://uaw.org/nissan-threats-intimidation-tilt-outcome-union-election-mississippi/amp/
Following an unprecedented campaign of corporate threats and intimation, Nissan employees tonight fell short in their bid for a union.
Rocky (667 posts) (Reply to original post) August 4, 2017 at 10:12 pm
1. And the proles vote against their own best interests….
again.
aspirant (1544 posts) (Reply to original post) August 4, 2017 at 10:49 pm
2. Who counted the votes?
Omaha Steve (1142 posts) (Reply to original post) August 4, 2017 at 11:25 pm
3. Poor dumb bastards that voted against their own chance…
For democracy in the workplace
Populist Prole (566 posts) (Reply to original post) August 5, 2017 at 12:38 am
4. "Thank you sir, may I please have another!"
That they’re siding with management isn’t lack of information, it’s disinformation.
Reading some of the late Joe Bageant’s writings of his time spent talking to the working poor in the Winchester Va area, it’s flabbergasting at not only how accepting they are to race-to-the-bottom economic policies, but at how they’ve been brainwashed into bragging about it’s “necessity” to stay “competitive with the rest of the world” and at how they “don’t want to price themselves out of the world labor market”. Staggering knuckling under ( willingly at that ) to authority. They sound like they swallowed a sheaf of pro-corporate op-eds.
Honestly, I’m surprised that as much as 36-37 percent voted FOR representation. Glad it was that much and not an absolute rout.
Enthusiast (8546 posts) (Reply to original post) August 5, 2017 at 3:33 am
5. This is a great disappointment but not at all surprising.
Fasttense (1413 posts) (Reply to original post) August 5, 2017 at 5:28 am
6. You knw if they couldn't sell their crappy cars here
Then they would allow our workers to unionize. Why do they get away with breaking our laws yet they still sell their crap in our markets.
Seems like our oligarchs are now inviting in foreign oligarchs to abuse our labor force just like they abuse us.
Rocky (667 posts) (Reply to original post) August 4, 2017 at 10:12 pm
1. And the proles vote against their own best interests….
again.
Fasttense (1413 posts) (Reply to original post) August 5, 2017 at 5:28 am
6. You knw if they couldn't sell their crappy cars here
Then they would allow our workers to unionize. ...
In addition to the union thug greed I mentioned above, Toyota and Datsun/Nissan ate AMC's, Chrysler's, Ford's, and GM's lunch in the 1970s and 1980s by having better quality.
You forgot the 90s and the early 2000s, too. :-)
You forgot the 90s and the early 2000s, too. :-)
Following an unprecedented campaign of corporate threats and intimation, Nissan employees tonight fell short in their bid for a union.
democracy in the workplace
Rocky (667 posts) (Reply to original post) August 4, 2017 at 10:12 pm
1. And the proles vote against their own best interests….
again.