The settlement is similar to others reached with major automakers. In June, a federal judge in Miami granted preliminary approval to settlements with Toyota Motor Corp., Subaru Corp., BMW AG and Mazda Motor Corp., totaling $553 million and affecting 15.8 million vehicles with Takata inflators.
In other Nissan news, workers at Nissan’s Canton, MS, assembly plant have rejected unionization.
By a margin of 2,244 to 1,307, workers voted against UAW representation, giving the union yet another blow in its decades-long quest to organize foreign automakers’ assembly plants in the South.