From Payday Report: 6,000 Nissan Workers Forced to Work During COVID-19 in Mississippi
Berry Craig
By MIKE ELK
On Tuesday, Nissan shut down Britain’s largest car plant in Sunderland, where over 6,000 mostly white members of the British union Unite maintain a powerful check on the company.
However, in Canton, Mississippi, over 4,000 non-union and largely African-American auto workers at Nissan’s plant are being forced to work in conditions that workers say are ripe for spreading the deadly COVID-19 virus.
“This act of industrialized racism and social injustice has been taken to a new low!” says African-American Nissan worker Morris Mock, a veteran of the 17 year-long campaign to unionize the plant. “Now upper management gets to stay home while workers get infected! No Union! No Justice!”