Nissan Workers Get High-Profile Help in Organizing Effort

The UAW will get help from a “Lethal Weapon” star and a former presidential candidate March 4 as part of its longstanding effort to organize a Mississippi Nissan plant.

The United Auto Workers has been working since the early 2000s to organize workers at the Nissan North American Canton plant. Union representatives and a Mississippi civil rights group say the company’s anti-union tactics, coercion and threats over the years have obstructed workers’ rights to organize.

The dispute is an example of the difficulty union organizers have encountered when trying to introduce collective bargaining in the southern region of the U.S. ...