Dang it......thought they'd vote for the union......

[a kennedy]

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]

1. They will live to

Regret this.

[Tactical Peek]

2. Bummer.

SIFUABS

[Liberal In Texas]

3. Sucks.

Again. Voting against their best interests. I imagine the workers were pressured like crazy.

[standingtall]

4. Happens all the time unions typically don't have these votes until after determning the votes were

there,but then the company has about 6 weeks to apply pressure and scare workers into voting against it.

[politicat]

6. Also... Mississippi. The Deep South has always been very hard to organize.

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]

7. Huge miscalculation

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]

5. Landslide

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]

8. Big mistake on their part. n/t

[Laffy Kat]

9. Now that I am represented by a union, I cannot imagine ever leaving my job.

Why do people vote against their own interests again and again?

[Hoyt]

10. In deep, rural South, workers fear returning to days when there were no jobs this good.

Probably irrational, but it's a fear I can understand.

[AJT]

11. The truth is that it isn't an irrational fear. Companies can, and do, pick up and leave if they

can find cheaper labor else where. In this global economy I don't know what the answer is.

[BainsBane]

12. Not even close

63-37.

[kacekwl]

13. Soon enough they will all be temp Kelly labor with no say

or vote. Too bad.