Greetings from Canton, Miss., where Payday is getting ready to hit the road. Donate so that we can be back with even more labor reporters.  We have learned some new details of the defeat of Nissan, as workers there are preparing for a new NLRB election. Hundreds of Temps Added

Payday is proud to present our new long form interview series, “Q&A.” Our first guest is Robert Hathorn, a union activist and Nissan worker in Canton, Mississippi. Hathorn was one of the 1,307 workers who voted to unionize at Nissan. He previously worked at unionized workplace at

Following an ugly campaign, Nissan workers in Canton, Mississippi, lost a historic union election by a margin of 2,244 to 1,307 last week. Workers say that they aren’t giving up in their attempts to organize. The union immediately pledged to challenge the results at the National Labor

“Get up, Get Down, Canton is a union town” shouted dozens of UAW activists outside of Nissan plant’s gates on Thursday. The onslaught of TV ads and one-on-one anti-union meetings began taking their effect. Many activists knew that they were going to lose, but the carnival atmosphere of the