UAW accuses Nissan of 'scare tactics' as workers reject union bid

New York

IN A test of labour's ability to expand its reach in America's South, workers at a Nissan plant in Mississippi overwhelmingly rejected a bid to unionise, an election that the union quickly criticised.

Out of roughly 3,500 employees at the Canton-based plant who voted on Thursday and Friday, more than 60 per cent opposed the union. It was an emphatic coda to a years-long organising effort underwritten by the United Automobile Workers (UAW), which has been repeatedly frustrated in its efforts to organise car plants in the region.