CANTON, MS—Workers at Nissan Motor Co. Ltd.’s assembly plant here voted nearly two to one against representation by the United Auto Workers. The vote at the end of a bitterly contested campaign extended a decades-long record of failure by the union to organize a major automaker’s plant in the South.

CANTON, MS—Employees at Nissan’s assembly plant here have filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board for a unionization vote within a month.

CANTON, MS—Nissan Motor Co. has declined U.S. State Department mediation of its dispute with the United Autoworkers over the union’s attempts to organize Nissan’s assembly plant here.

CANTON, MS—Nissan Motor Co. has settled an unfair labor practice charge with a pro-union worker at its assembly plant here. The charge focused on a dispute over when Willard “Chip” Wells, a UAW supporter, could hand out union literature at the facility.

DETROIT—Actor Danny Glover has joined supporters of unionization for workers at Nissan’s assembly plant in Mississippi demonstrating outside the North American International Auto Show.