GM fires Mexican workers for supporting US strikers

On Friday, General Motors summarily fired five workers at its Silao Complex in Mexico because they have resisted company efforts to increase production at the plant in order to undermine the strike by 47,000 GM workers in the United States. The victimization took place shortly after workers issued a public call to unite GM workers on both sides of the border.

The action exposes the fear of GM and all transnational corporations that workers around the world will break the chains of the nationalist and pro-capitalist unions and unify their struggles to defend jobs and living standards.

On September 15, on the eve of the US GM strike, dozens of Silao workers held an assembly where they agreed to resist any demands for increased output that would weaken their brothers and sisters in the US. More than 6,000 autoworkers at the Silao Complex assemble GM’s highly profitable Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra pickups, which are also produced in Flint, Michigan and Fort Wayne, Indiana. There are 16,000 hourly GM workers in Mexico who make about $2 an hour and work 12 hours a day.

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• The UAW ordered its membership to strike General Motors on Sunday night after contract negotiations broke down.

• GM's 49,000 UAW-represented workers could take to the picket lines.

• The UAW has been bristling for a strike since early 2019, when GM "unallocated" several US factories, including its Lordstown facility in Ohio.

• President Donald Trump, who won Ohio in 2016, has been agitating for GM to sell or reopen that plant.

• The 2007 strike against GM lasted just a few days; it's uncertain how long this new action will hold up.

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• How do you get these silly dots to disappear?

• There was another related article which said that GM has more workers in China than UAW workers in the US. GM now has more workers in China than UAW employees in the U.S.

• President Donald Trump on Friday disdainfully labeled General Motors as "one of the smallest car manufacturers" in Detroit, reprising his call that the automaker move jobs back to the U.S. Something else he might not be happy with: GM is also one of the largest car makers in China.
  
  In fact, GM now employs more workers in China than it does members of the United Auto Workers in the U.S. According to its website, the company now has about 58,000 workers in China — that's about 20% more than its domestic UAW workforce, which has dwindled in recent years.

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• Actually, the article mentioned that it's not true that GM is the smallest car manufacturer in Detroit.

• In fact, GM is not among the smallest auto manufacturers in Detroit, or anything close to it. Bollinger Motors, for instance, has 17 employees, not including its three dogs, Charlie, Henry and Paco (Paco, according to his bio on Bollinger's website, likes tennis balls.)
  
  GM has a total of 49,000 UAW workers, including temporary employees. That's about 2,000 more than Fiat Chrysler, while Ford has roughly 55,000 UAW employees in the U.S.
  
  Still, GM's domestic workforce has been shrinking for years, a trend that has continued since President Trump took office. At the end of 2016, GM employed 54,096 UAW workers in the U.S.

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Revoltingest said:

If I had any employees who refused to work,
I'd interpret it as quitting. I'd formalize this,
ie, their termination.

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columbus said:

You don't work.

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Maybe you're the more dispensable burden on the Human Family.

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Lyndon said:

Paying $2/hr working 12 hrs a day, that's criminal.

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Lyndon said:

Paying $2/hr working 12 hrs a day, that's criminal.

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Revoltingest said:

If I had any employees who refused to work,
I'd interpret it as quitting. I'd formalize this,
ie, their termination.

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Stevicus said:

So, what would you do after that? Would you do the work yourself, or hire someone else? What if no one else wanted to cross the picket line (lest they be called a "scab")?

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tytlyf said:

A Mexican GM plant fired a few Mexican workers? Alert the press! Weird source.

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Revoltingest said:

Hire workers tough enuf to endure name calling by non-working malcontents.

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Stevicus said:

Nobody is that tough, except for me, and I've already got a job.

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Stevicus said:

GM fires Mexican workers for aiding US strikers and calling for cross-border fight against automaker



I hadn't heard about the autoworkers' strike, but I found another article on the subject.

The US auto workers union just decided to walk out on GM — here's why they're striking

• How do you get these silly dots to disappear?

• There was another related article which said that GM has more workers in China than UAW workers in the US. GM now has more workers in China than UAW employees in the U.S.

• Actually, the article mentioned that it's not true that GM is the smallest car manufacturer in Detroit.

• Silly dots...

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