Nissan rejects U.S. government offer to mediate Mississippi UAW row

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Reuters

BY BERNIE WOODALL

Nissan Motor Co has rejected a U.S. State Department offer to mediate a dispute between the company and the United Auto Workers over claims of anti-union practices as the UAW tries to organize workers in Mississippi.

The UAW was joined by the umbrella labor group IndustriALL Global Union Federation last April in asking the State Department for its help.

Even as the mediation would have been non-binding, the UAW's effort to include a global union group and the State Department is part of its ongoing campaign to turn public opinion against Nissan for what it claims are violations of workers' rights.

The State Department said in a statement its role had ended because "a voluntary mediation process could not be established since Nissan was not willing to participate," with the State Department's National Contact Point (NCP), which works to further the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development's guidelines in the United States.

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[Monk06]

1. Picked the wrong target for floating an international labour union group. Carlos Ghosn Nissan's

CEO is well loved in France and Japan. He saved both Nissan and Renault from bankruptcy. He is not anti union and Japan and France are pro union countries.

The Mississippi employees should just gone for the contract without trying to garner international publicity.

[demosincebirth]

2. I never heard of any CEO, of any company big or small being pro-labor. Organizing in the South is

like betting on a one legged man in a Butt-kicking contest.

[Monk06]

3. I didn't say Ghosn was pro labour. I said he wasn't anti labour. It's more complicated when you

take into account how Ghosn saved Nissan from itself. Check out this vid and decide for yourself.