DETROIT: Officials at Nissan’s US auto plant in Canton, Mississippi refused to meet on Tuesday (Wednesday in Manila) with a French legislator seeking information on workers’ efforts to organize a union.

Christian Hutin, a member of France’s National Assembly, was in Mississippi on a fact-finding mission on working conditions at Nissan, which is partly controlled by the French government via the Renault-Nissan Alliance.

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