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...SUVs and pickups. But the transplants are attacking that bastion. Toyota is adding capacity for its full-size pickup, the Tundra, with a new plant set to open in 2006 in San Antonio, Texas. And later this month, Nissan will inaugurate a new plant (now in test mode) in Canton, Miss., where it will build the Armada full-size SUV and the Titan full-size pickup...
Doing flexible assembly well is a lot tougher and, initially, more expensive than it may sound. Of the $1.5 billion Nissan has invested in its new plant in Canton, Miss., just north of Jackson, about a third went into making the operation as flexible as possible. At full capacity, the Canton plant can produce 400,000 vehicles a year, including sedans, minivans, SUVs and pickups...
...have consistently voted against joining, in part because of strong community support for the manufacturers and a sense of mutual loyalty. "Nissan takes care of its employees, and if the union tries to organize us, I'll probably oppose it," says Murphy Wilson, 27, a newly hired technician in Canton. The UAW has tried four times to win over Nissan's Smyrna work force but was voted down 2 to 1 in its last try in 2001. "We have not given up on the transnationals," says UAW president Ron Gettelfinger, who claims that "fear, intimidation and threats hold workers back...
Lovers of fish and shellfish flock to Canton's Seafood Restaurant, close to the Greenway Plaza office complexes. There the fish tanks aren't just decorative; they hold the live rockfish, black cod and jumbo crab waiting to be fried whole, baked in spicy salt or steamed with a simple but powerful ginger-scallion sauce...
...known unknowns. And the biggest one for Bush is the economy. Republican pollsters are telling the White House that job security tops Americans' list of economic concerns. As a result, the White House mantra is "jobs." Bush used the word 33 times in a speech last week in Canton, Ohio...