With all votes counted, over two-thirds of employees at Nissan's Smyrna, Tennessee production plant voted against representation by the United Auto Workers. The vote was a major loss for the UAW, which has tried to organize the plant four times in the past twelve years, and still has not succeeded in organizing a foreign-owned U.S. auto plant. The UAW's vice president of organizing has accused Nissan of illegally coercing employees and otherwise interfering with the election.
See "UAW Loses Bid to Enter Nissan Plant", TERRIL YUE JONES, Los Angeles Times, October 3, 2001