Bernie Sanders Joins Groups Urging Nissan to Stop Fighting UAW

The United Auto Workers’ decade-long drive to organize a Nissan Motor Co. plant has found a supporter in Senator Bernie Sanders, who plans to hand-deliver a letter urging the automaker to drop its opposition to the union at the Mississippi site.

“These workers have shown incredible courage in standing up and fighting back, and they deserve my support -- and I think they deserve support from progressives all across this country,” Sanders said in a telephone interview Friday. The anti-union pressures facing workers in Mississippi may be the worst of any place in America, he said.