Obama-Backed Netflix Documentary Causes Headaches for Fuyao Glass

Chinese-owned Fuyao Glass America Inc. is facing blowback from a Netflix documentary showing the company’s chairman and managers making disparaging comments about American workers and their attempts to form a union at the Moraine, Ohio, plant.

“American Factory,” the first in a series of projects from Netflix and Barack and Michelle Obama’s Higher Ground Productions, chronicles Fuyao’s repurposing of a former auto plant, including culture clashes between the American workforce and Chinese management and workers’ attempts at United Auto Workers union representation.

Labor academics and lawyers who watched the documentary and were interviewed by Bloomberg Law said some ...