"They are letting us die," Juan Carlos Vicente, head of the plant workers' committee, told hundreds of his colleagues gathered at the factory. On Wednesday, Nissan's alliance partners Renault of France and Japan's Mitsubishi Motors Corp. announced plans to share purchasing, development and technology to slash costs and improve their competitiveness. Management at Renault was meeting Thursday with unions about its 2 billion euro ($2.2 billion) cost-cutting plan. Nissan has spent much of the past year seeking to recover from the November 2018 arrest of its former chairman, Carlos Ghosn, over financial misconduct allegations, including under-reporting future compensation and misusing Nissan money. The company's management appeared to be in disarray after the sudden departure of Ghosn, who was sent by Renault to help Nissan recover from near-bankruptcy in 1999.