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Nissan Workers in Mississippi Build Southern Support for Union Drive

Rebekah Barber Facing South
Today, workers at the city’s Nissan plant are facing a familiar backlash in their 12-year struggle for the right to organize a union. In a show of solidarity, this week cities across the South also steeped in civil rights history — Atlanta, Birmingham, Charlotte, Greensboro and Nashville — are organizing local actions to support the Canton workers and build regional pressure on Nissan to allow free union elections.

Nissan Union Leaders From South Africa Shocked by Anti-Union Conduct in U.S.

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“In South Africa, the Chief Operating Officer of Nissan sat down and listened to me,” said Witness Ndlovu, a union steward at Nissan’s South Africa South Africa Delegationplant . Ndlovu is a member of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA), the national autoworkers union in South Africa. “I am surprised and shocked,” he said, “by the fact that Nissan interferes so blatantly with the right of U.S. workers to have a voice in the workplace.”
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