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The Nissan Motor Co. logo is displayed at the company's global headquarters in Yokohama near Tokyo, Wednesday, July 22, 2020. Federal regulators have denied a union push to try to organize fewer than 100 employees at the Nissan assembly plant in Tennessee. The ruling instead set a July 2021 union election of 4,300 plantwide production and maintenance workers.
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LGBT advocacy group leaders and representatives from businesses gathered at the Cordell Hull legislative building in Nashville on Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2020 for a news conference to oppose a state adoption law and other proposals that target the LGBT community. Almost three dozen big companies and more than 100 small businesses in Tennessee on Wednesday predicted economic backlash from a newly enacted state adoption law and other proposals that target LGBT people, with one company saying plans to add jobs in Nashville are 'in doubt' over the legislation.
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