General Motors Fired Five Mexican Workers For Aiding the U.S. Auto Strike

General Motors Fired Five Mexican Workers For Aiding the U.S. Auto Strike

5 years ago
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https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/mbm9b8/general-motors-fired-five-mexican-workers-for-aiding-the-us-auto-strike

A General Motors plant in Mexico fired at least five workers who organized to aid the GM strike in the United States, according to the Mexican newspaper Periódico Correo and an organizer for workers at Mexican plant.

Mexican GM workers organized to resist pressure to increase assembly line production, which would offset GM’s losses in the 48,000-worker strike in the United States, according to Periódico Correo. The GM plant is located in Silao, a city in central Mexico, and manufactures Chevrolet and GMC pick-up trucks. Motherboard has independently confirmed that workers in the Silao plant are organizing in solidarity with their colleagues in the US; an organizer named Israel Cervantes Córdova working with people in the Mexican plant also confirmed that five people were recently fired for taking action.