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Article

12 Jan 2011

Author:
Nick Bunkley, New York Times

U.A.W. to Renew Organizing Efforts at Foreign-Owned Plants [USA]

The United Automobile Workers union this year is renewing its effort to organize workers at plants that foreign automakers operate in the United States and will portray companies that resist as “human rights violators,” the union’s president said Wednesday...Last week, the U.A.W. released a list of 11 principles for “fair union elections” that it wants foreign-based manufacturers to adopt...The principles are aimed at giving workers the chance to decide whether they want to unionize without intimidation, fear of repercussions from either side or misleading information...Toyota, Honda, Hyundai, Kia [part of Hyundai], Nissan and BMW all have plants in the United States, all nonunion and mostly in the South... Steve St. Angelo, Toyota’s top manufacturing executive in the United States...said any organization decisions would be up to workers but suggested that Toyota, which has five United States assembly plants, is better off without the U.A.W... [also refers to Volkswagen, Tesla Motors, General Motors]