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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDang it......thought they'd vote for the union......
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2017/08/05/nissan-workers-reject-uaw-crucial-vote/542216001/Bernie worked for this........damn, thought it was going to pass. Sad.
cilla4progress
(24,798 posts)Regret this.
Tactical Peek
(1,213 posts)SIFUABS
Liberal In Texas
(13,611 posts)Again. Voting against their best interests. I imagine the workers were pressured like crazy.
standingtall
(2,787 posts)there,but then the company has about 6 weeks to apply pressure and scare workers into voting against it.
politicat
(9,808 posts)Call it "economic anxiety", but there's a long history of the white patrician class using race to divide the working class, and dangling potential entry into the lower gentry to white crafts and trades workers as a means of keeping them from organizing. (In some areas, as an example, a daughter will not be admitted to a Cotillion if her father is in a union, and Cotillion still matters for some people.)
My BIL in a neighboring state would significantly benefit from a Machinists or Teamsters union in his shop, but that gun-humping, survivalist, goldbugging RWNJ would sooner chew off his own foot than voluntarily join a union.
NissanUSA deserves some of the blame, but I'm not sure how much of it. Since the UAW is having a hell of a time with their own membership in their own strongholds in the upper Midwest, new territories are a harder battle.
MichMan
(12,002 posts)Big miscalculation by the UAW. You don't usually call for an election unless you think you have a very good shot of winning. With the vote against being nearly 65-35 %, they severely overestimated their level of support
MichMan
(12,002 posts)Wow, vote wasn't even close.
Wonder what effect the recent criminal charges against the widow of a top UAW official who conspired with FCA execs to embezzle hundreds of thousands might have had?
whathehell
(29,103 posts)Laffy Kat
(16,391 posts)Why do people vote against their own interests again and again?
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)Probably irrational, but it's a fear I can understand.
AJT
(5,240 posts)can find cheaper labor else where. In this global economy I don't know what the answer is.
BainsBane
(53,122 posts)63-37.
kacekwl
(7,025 posts)or vote. Too bad.