Nissan faces more labor law charges at Mississippi plant
Federal labor regulators have added to charges to a complaint that Nissan Motor Co. and a contract worker agency at Nissan’s Mississippi plant have violated workers’ rights. The National Labor...
View ArticleUnion files for vote at Nissan plant
The United Auto Workers filed petitions Monday to force a unionization election at a Nissan Motor Co. plant in Mississippi after a yearslong pressure campaign to build support. Sandra Hightower of the...
View ArticleNissan supplier to invest $16.3 million, create 98 jobs
MBJ staff Calsonic Kansei announced on Monday a $16.3 million corporate expansion in Madison, which will create 98 jobs. A supplier to Nissan’s Canton automotive assembly plant, Calsonic Kansei said in...
View ArticleEconomic report adds fuel to Nissan union vote fire
By Jack Weatherly An updated study showing the major impact of the automotive industry on Mississippi’s economy was released Thursday as an election approaches at the Nissan plant in Canton in which...
View ArticleFormer contract workers key in Mississippi Nissan union vote
A bid by workers at Mississippi’s Nissan Motor Co. plant for United Auto Workers representation could turn on a key voting bloc — 1,500 workers who are Nissan employees today, but were initially hired...
View ArticleNissan workers in Mississippi begin voting on union
Workers at Nissan Motor Co.’s Mississippi assembly plant cast ballots Thursday to decide whether to be represented by the United Auto Workers union. The voting by 3,700 assembly and maintenance workers...
View ArticleNissan workers reject effort by UAW to organize plant
Associated Press Workers at the Nissan assembly plant in Canton have rejected union representation, adding to decades of futility by United Auto Workers organizers at foreign-owned auto plants in the...
View ArticleANALYSIS: Let’s take a data-driven look at another side of Nissan’s success...
It’s no surprise that the union vote at Nissan’s manufacturing facility in Canton generated national headlines. This coverage culminated last week when workers voted 2,244 to 1,307 against the union....
View ArticleRural hospital in north Mississippi sold to new owner
A rural hospital in the Mississippi Delta has been sold by one Tennessee company to another. Northwest Mississippi Medical Center, in Clarksdale, has 181 beds. Community Health Systems, Inc., based in...
View ArticleFilm industry takes a hit after incentive scrapped
By JACK WEATHERLY Don’t go by the Mississippi Film Studios to catch a glimpse of movie star. The 43,000-square-foot purpose-built facility in Canton, which dates to the 1996 movie “A Time to Kill,”...
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