Mississippi Autoworkers Mobilize

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The workers at the Nissan plant in Canton, Mississippi, had high hopes when the state-of-the-art factory complex moved in fourteen years ago to a small, majority black town where more than a quarter of residents live in poverty and decent jobs are scarce.

As the manufacturing economy stagnated in the early 2000s, Nissan brought a streak of Clinton-

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Those workplace hazards are terrifying. I hope they're able to successfully organize.

Right to work is kind of a disaster for unions, but that was the point.