The United Auto Workers is prepared to push ahead with an ambitious effort to organize nonunion autoworkers across the country, but primarily in the South...Workers at plants in the South are denied the right to belong to a union by a culture that systematically works to discourage workers from joining unions through intimidation and threats, said [UAW president Bob] King...The principles [urged by the UAW] require companies such as Toyota, Honda, Hyundai-Kia, Nissan, BMW, Volkswagen AG and Mercedes-Benz to remain neutral during the UAW’s effort to organize... “...I don’t think any company wants to be accused of violating human rights. I don’t think they want to be accused of treating their American workers as second-class citizens,” he said, adding that all of the European, Japanese and Korean companies have heavily unionized plants in their own countries...King said the UAW has gotten responses from two German automakers, who have indicated they might be willing to consider honoring the union’s demand for neutrality... [also refers to Ford, Chrysler]