Bernie Sanders coming to March in Mississippi for starting a Union at Nissan

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What's the Sierra Club's angle with this?

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They're doing what a nutcase would do. Their angle is that they're nuts.

Love Bernie!

Thank you unions!

Thanks for: 5 Day work weeks, Child labor laws, 40 hr work weeks,

Nissan could learn from Bugatti

If I could pick my dream job, it would be as an attorney gut-busting unions.

This has been an issue near and dear to me for years, but I haven't been able to figure out why. I periodically write my congressman and senators with requests that they consider repealing large portions of the NLRA which are just outright bad for businesses and workers, yet no one seems to get it.

The NLRB should be abolished, IMO, and collective bargaining should be restricted to only basic employment obligations: hours, wages, and training. Anything outside of those areas would be illegal if I had my way.

I don't know what this has to do with the OP, but I guess Bernie would be marching for very little under my system.

The people working at Nissan cant make anywhere near the money they are making there nor get similar benefits anywhere in Mississippi with just a HS diploma. I don't see what all the complaining is about. Mississippi is a Right to work State and has NEVER had unions to my knowledge.

As a resident of Madison, I find this most hilarious.

The overwhelming majority of Nissan workers love it and are not interested in unionizing. There's a few workers stirred up because they think it will line their pockets.

This has to be the 10th time Danny Glover has been here

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U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders and actor Danny Glover are coming to Mississippi to help bring attention to what organizers call poor working conditions at Canton's Nissan manufacturing plant, according to the Mississippi NAACP. The "March on Mississippi" is scheduled for March 4 at the Canton Sportsplex, as advertised by the Mississippi Alliance For Fairness at Nissan. U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson and Sierra Club President Aaron Mair will also attend. The march focuses on attempts by Nissan workers to unionize and the intimidation they say they've faced in response.


I have two friends who work at the Nissan plant in Canton, and love working there. They said that there are some people who like to complain about everything and they are the ones who are trying to stir things up which is leading to Bernie visiting Mississippi. They said if the people don't like Nissan then maybe they should quit, but they wont because they cant/wont be able to find as good of as job as they already have.

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How many times has the UAW tried and failed to unionize that plant? Sanders is wasting his time, but hey maybe driving through Jackson will be an eye opening experience for him. He will be able to see what a socialist utopia in America would actually look like, and :spoiler alert: it is not pretty.

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Bernie sanders is a stupid arse socialist

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He's an opportunist. He does not care about Mississippi and he doesn't care if Nissan shuts down the facility.

To get all the state tax breaks offered, the car companies have to promise a certain number of jobs.
Most of these jobs are unskilled type jobs that robots can do.
I'd expect Nissan at some point begin robot replacing should the plant unionize.

Yeah, either way he's steaming pile.