In August, workers at Nissan Motor Co.’s assembly plant in Canton, MS, voted nearly two to one against representation by the United Auto Workers (UAW).
The vote marked the latest defeat for the UAW, which is desperate to unionize an automotive assembly plant in the South. Workers at Nissan’s factory in Smyrna, TN, rejected the UAW in 1989 and 2001. And in 2014, the union lost a vote to represent workers at Volkswagen’s plant in Chattanooga, TN.