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Looking back on Honda's brush with the UAW

"It's easy to look at this now as an obvious decision. But back in the early 1980s, you couldn't say conventional wisdom led to our decision to build the Accord in Ohio."Tom Shoupe, COO, Honda of America Manufacturing
VB
By:
Vince Bond Jr.
July 21, 2018 05:00 AM

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- A few months after Honda started building motorcycles at its newly minted $35 million plant in Marysville, Ohio, in September 1979, the UAW set up shop nearby to begin its organizing effort.

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