U.A.W. Accuses Nissan of ‘Scare Tactics’ as Workers Reject Union Bid<br />Another manager emphasized in a meeting that Nissan could decide not to automatically deduct<br />workers’ union dues, in which case the union would end up sending workers a regular “bill.”<br />“It was just to deter people from joining, was what I’m getting out of it,” said Earnestine Mayes, a union supporter.<br />Coinciding with the vote on Friday, the union filed a round of new charges about the company’s behavior, including providing the union with faulty voter information, keeping workers who were engaged in organizing activity under surveillance<br />and rating workers according to the extent of their union support.<br />Beyond the question of its contributions to local groups, which the union said were similar to contributions it has made to civil rights<br />and religious groups for decades, anti-union workers dwelled on the indictment last week of a former Fiat Chrysler labor relations official accused of skimming millions of dollars from a training facility to benefit himself and a former U. A.W.
