Watch: Mississippi NAACP Talks about Nissan’s Anti-Union TV Ads

Mike Elk was the only national reporter to attend the 5,000 person Historic "March on Mississippi" against Nissan.

Last night, Payday raised over $900 that we need to travel to Canton, Mississippi (Donate here).

As we were raising funds and getting ready to leave from Goshen, Kentucky, we got a phone call from Mississippi NAACP Organizer Frank Figgers, Co-Chair of the Mississippi Alliance for Fairness at Nissan.

Figgers talked to us about the effects that are anti-union TV ads that Nissan is running are having on the union election.

“I also think and have confidence in that workers are much more clever than that” says Figgers. “They have been experiencing all these things for a number of years”.

Watch the full interview here.

 

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Mike Elk
Mike Elk is an Emmy-nominated labor reporter and alumni of the Guardian. In addition to filing nearly 2,000 stories from 46 states, Elk traveled with Lula from Sáo Bernando do Campos all the way to the Oval Office in the White House. Credited by the Washington Post for being the first reporter to track the strike wave systematically, Elk started Payday Report using his NLRB settlement from being illegally fired for union organizing in 2015. He lives in his hometown of Pittsburgh and works frequently in Rio de Janeiro, where he attended college at PUC-Rio. He speaks both Portuguese and Pittsburghese fluently. His email is [email protected]

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