Nissan technician Betty Jones sent this message to working family activists today:

I’m a technician at the Nissan plant in Canton, Miss., and I’m proud to work there. I want our company to succeed, and I never give anything less than my best.

And that’s one of the reasons my co-workers and I are organizing for a voice on the job. We believe that by organizing collectively we can work together with Nissan to make the company and our community better.

But Nissan has been fighting to take our right to form a union from us. A Nissan executive has said that “if you’re pro-union, you’re anti-Nissan,” and the company has implied that it may close the plant if we unionize.

Find out more about our struggle for justice on the job, then help spread the word about our campaign.

We aren’t asking for anything that other Nissan workers don’t already have. Workers in Brazil, South Africa and Japan have a union and a voice on the job—that’s all we want, too.

We give a lot to this company and have ideas to make Nissan better. We want to feel like this is our company, too, and the only way we’re going to be able to make things better for everyone is if we have a seat at the bargaining table.

Find out more about our campaign and follow us on Facebook and Twitter to spread the word:

go.aflcio.org/Do-Better-Nissan

In Solidarity,

Betty Jones
Nissan Technician