SALTER – Hardest sell for UAW is income growth
Public sector unions took a political beating in Wisconsin this week in a political exercise that may have far-reaching impacts on public pension programs across the country. Private sector unions continue to face a steady decline in membership.
That’s the backdrop against which efforts to unionize the state’s burgeoning auto manufacturing industry is unfolding. Clearly, there is an effort to break Mississippi’s “right to work” state status with a unionization push at the Nissan plant in Canton.
Yet other than perpetuating the union’s eroding existence with new members and new union dues, the United Auto Workers have to make some sort of rational pitch to the state’s auto workers as to why it would be to their advantage to pay dues.
Hattiesburg American
6/8/12
Magnolia Tribune
