Nissan’s efforts to stay workers from forming a union is an all-too-familiar story of how greedy corporations divide and conquer working people,writes Bernie SandersA few months before the historic March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Dr Martin Luther King Jr wrote in his Letter from a Birmingham Jail: “We know from painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.”This week, and thousands of courageous workers at a Nissan plant in Canton,Mississippi, are doing just that. They are voting for the factual to join a union, and the factual to make a living wage and the factual to job security and pensions. And they are doing so by connecting workers’ rights with civil rights,as the plant’s workforce is over 80% African American. Related: Bernie Sanders attacks 'greedy' Nissan for anti-union campaign Our goal must be to raise wages in Mississippi and all over this country, not engage in a destructive race to the bottomContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com