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UAW’s Southern strategy: Union revs up drive to get workers employed by foreign automakers to join its ranks

  • Written by Bob Bussel, Professor Emeritus of History and Labor Education, University of Oregon
imageA UAW supporter in 2017 outside a Nissan plant in Canton, Miss., ahead of a vote the union lost.AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis

Persuading Southern autoworkers to join a union remains one of the U.S. labor movement’s most enduring challenges, despite persistent efforts by the United Auto Workers union to organize this workforce.

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