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Kaptur joins letter to President Trump regarding Nissan's anti-worker campaign

August 2, 2017

Washington D.C. -- Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09) joined a letter with 18 Members of Congress urging President Donald Trump to publicly support and protect the collective bargaining rights of the Mississippi auto workers. The letter was sent in advance of a closely watched vote to unionize a Nissan manufacturing plant in Canton, Mississippi.

"As elected representatives of Americans from across the country who are deeply concerned about the future of collective bargaining rights as a matter of public policy, we write to inform you of the mistreatment of American workers in Canton, Mississippi, at the hands of Nissan, to urge you to affirm collective bargaining as a universal and unassailable right, and to ask that you urge the company shift its posture towards the organizing drive at the facility in Canton to neutral," the Members stated in the letter.

"...we ask that you declare, in no uncertain terms, that American workers have the right to collectively bargain for better and safer working conditions; that foreign companies operating in the United States unequivocally support workers' rights towards collective action as established by the National Labor Relations Act and related statutes; and that Nissan USA make a dramatic shift in policy and adopt a neutral stance towards the August 4th NLRB vote," the Members continued.

Read the full letter here: