Jonathan Mattise at Fortune Magazine and the Associated Press are reporting a group of 75 Employees out of the thousands who work at a Nissan Assembly Plant in Smyrna, Tennessee finally voted on Thursday (March 16th) on whether to form a Union.  Those leading the Union Drive hope for an elusive win at a foreign-owned Auto Assembly Plant in the traditionally Anti-Union South.  After years of legal wrangling that spanned two Presidential Administrations, Organizers successfully argued that the group of 75 Tool and Die Technicians were eligible for standalone representation because they have extremely specialized skills for a job that can’t be done by others at the facility.  The Japan-based company has contended the Employees are not sufficiently distinct from other Plant Workers to be eligible for their own Unionized bloc.

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