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3 November 2016

3:00 PM

3 November 2016

3:00 PM

Strike force

Nissan is to expand its plant in Sunderland, building two new models there. The Japanese company is praised for not losing a day to strikes in three decades in the city. But labour relations weren’t always so good.

— In 1953, when part of Nissan’s business was assembling Austin cars in Japan under licence, the company suffered a bitter
100-day strike.

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