UAW Accuses Nissan of Threatening Workers in Organizing Drive

The United Auto Workers, trying a third time to organize Nissan Motor Co.’s U.S. workers, accused Japan’s second-largest automaker of threatening to shut its Canton, Mississippi, factory before it allows the union in.

“At Nissan in Mississippi, they’re threatening workers there that they’re going to close the plant and that’s baloney,” UAW President Bob King said in an interview yesterday. Nissan workers are “being lied to by the American management. The American management violates workers’ rights every day.”