Nissan Raises Wages

Gee, I wonder why all these Nissan workers in the United States are getting huge wage gains?

The agreement reached between the United Automobile Workers (UAW) and the Big Three automakers continues to positively impact on non-unionized workers at U.S. plants belonging to foreign automakers. Those workers might want to consider sending a big thank you note to their unionized brothers and sisters at the Big Three automakers.

Hyundai, Toyota and Honda have already announced significant wage increases for their workers; now Nissan has done the same. The Japanese automaker will raise top salaries of workers at its U.S. plants by 10 percent in January.

The wage increase will be effective from January 8 for production, maintenance and tooling technicians. Workers who have not yet reached the highest level will also benefit from a pay rise.

Nissan employs around 14,000 production workers at two assembly plants and one engine plant in Tennessee and Mississippi. In all, some 9,000 those will be seeing their wages increase.

The company also emphasized that it would be eliminating wage tiers for U.S. production workers.

So what you are saying is that all your low wages and wage tiers were just complete bullshit to steal profit from the workers who have earned it? Again, I’d love to see these workers realize that everything they are getting is because of the United Auto Workers. Some I know do. Let’s see if the union can organize these plants though. That is what is going to decide the future of the union.