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DETROIT — The United Auto Workers union is positioning itself as a car-company partner rather than an adversary as it renews a campaign to sign up workers at U.S. plants owned by foreign-based car companies.
Yet Bob King, the union’s president, said it will play tough with Toyota, Honda, BMW, Hyundai and others if they don’t agree to secret-ballot election principles that the union is backing. Companies that don’t sign on to the principles will be branded as human rights violators, King told an industry group Wednesday.
