Automobile
Mexico: Honda workers have right to join trade union of their choice, court rules
IndustriALL, 3 Feb 2014
USA: Nissan allegedly abuses workers’ rights to freedom of association at Canton plant in Mississippi
Derrick Johnson (Mississippi NAACP) & Lance Compa (international labour law scholar)
[PDF] Full report
[PDF] Nissan response
So. Korea: Hyundai Motor employee allegedly set himself on fire to protest against "suppression" of union workers, company denies "any improper conduct"
Hyunjoo Jin, Reuters, 09 Jan 2012
UK: Trade union accuses Honda of "union-busting" following revelation of internal documents - company says it is investigating
Dan Milmo, Observer (UK), 16 Oct 2011
US appeals court rules lawsuit against Daimler over alleged abuses against union workers during Argentine "Dirty War" can be heard in US court, includes allegations of “disappearances”
Jonathan Stempel, Reuters, 18 May 2011
Bauman, et al. v. DaimlerChrysler Corporation, et al. - Opinion
US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 18 May 2011
Argentina: In trials re military govt. in 1970s, former Mercedes-Benz worker says he witnessed detention & kidnapping of workmates/unionists, with the company's complicity
European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR), Mar 2010
Argentina: Allegations against Ford for abuses during the military dictatorship (1976-1983)
Compiled by Business & Human Rights Resource Centre, 2006-2007
Iran: Automobile factory worker arrested on and missing since 12 April 2005, and violent attack on premises of a union
Intl. Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU), 10 May 2005
Argentina: DaimlerChrysler sued in USA over alleged role in disappearance, torture & presumed death of workers & union leaders
Pablo Bachelet, Reuters, 14 Jan 2004
DaimlerChrysler announces external inquiry into claims its subsidiaries handed over union activists to Argentina's military dictatorship
BBC, 28 Oct 2002
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Car firm probes union 'betrayal' claim
Author: BBC News
The car firm DaimlerChrysler has announced an external inquiry into claims that one of its subsidiaries handed over 14 union activists to Argentina's military dictatorship in the 1970s.
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- Related companies: DaimlerChrysler (now Daimler)
DaimlerChrysler sued over alleged Argentine abuses
Author: Pablo Bachelet, Reuters
[USA]: Automaker DaimlerChrysler...was sued on Wednesday over its alleged role in the disappearance and torture of workers and union leaders at the height of the "Dirty War" in Argentina, nearly three decades ago...The plaintiffs say the...
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- Related in-depth areas: "Disappearances" Argentina Automobile Killings
- Related companies: Coca-Cola DaimlerChrysler (now Daimler) Mercedes-Benz (part of Daimler) Unocal (part of Chevron)
Author: Reuters
Según la demanda, presentada en un tribunal federal de California por los familiares de las víctimas, varios ejecutivos de la planta de González-Catán de Mercedes Benz Argentina, en la provincia de Buenos Aires, colaboraron entre 1976 y 1977 en la...
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- Related in-depth areas: "Desapariciones" Argentina Asesinatos Automobile Automóviles Demandas Tortura y malos tratos
- Related companies: Coca-Cola DaimlerChrysler (now Daimler) Mercedes-Benz (part of Daimler) Unocal (part of Chevron)
Iran: Automobile factory worker arrested on and missing since 12 April 2005, and violent attack on premises of a union
Author: International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU)
Mr. Parviz Salarvand, a worker at the Iran Khodro automobile construction company...[after having expressed sympathy for the demands of other Iran Khodro workers] was arrested by the company’s security department on 12 April 2005. Subsequently he was,...
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Author: Terra Actualidad - EFE
La causa abierta contra…Mercedes-Benz [parte de Daimler] por su supuesta implicación en la desaparición de varias personas durante la última dictadura militar en Argentina (1973-1986) comenzará este año en Estados Unidos…[L]a periodista alemana...
- Related in-depth areas: "Desapariciones" Argentina Automobile Automóviles Metales y materiales Metals & materials Tortura y malos tratos
- Related companies: Daimler Mercedes-Benz (part of Daimler)
Update on on-going trials in Argentina III
Author: European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR)
One of the largest investigations of the Argentinean judiciary was conducted because of the serious human rights violations in the complex Campo de Mayo. Only very few of the more than thousand secretly detained and tortured regime critics survived....
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Daimler must face Argentina abuse lawsuit in US
Author: Jonathan Stempel, Reuters
Daimler AG was ordered on Wednesday to face a U.S. lawsuit alleging it participated in the kidnapping, torture and death of Mercedes-Benz workers in Argentina's "Dirty War" three decades ago. A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of...
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[PDF] Bauman, et al. v. DaimlerChrysler Corporation, et al. - Opinion
Author: US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Plaintiffs-Appellants (the “plaintiffs”), twenty-two Argentinian residents, bring suit against DaimlerChrysler Aktiengesellschaft (DCAG) alleging that one of DCAG’s subsidiaries, Mercedes-Benz Argentina (MBA) collaborated with state security forces to...
Unite clashes with Honda over 'union derecognition' documents [UK]
Author: Dan Milmo, Observer [UK]
Honda has been accused of union-busting after Unite…uncovered company documents referring to minimising its influence at the car company's UK operations. General secretary Len McCluskey is writing to shareholders to warn that the...company could...
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Hyundai union threatens stoppages after worker self-immolation [So. Korea]
Author: Hyunjoo Jin, Reuters
The labor union of Hyundai Motor [part of Hyundai Kia Motor] has threatened to suspend all engine output in the company's biggest production base…saying an employee set himself on fire to protest the company's alleged "suppression" of unionized...
- Related in-depth areas: Automobile Interference with right to form trade unions South Korea
- Related companies: Hyundai Kia Motor Hyundai Motor (part of Hyundai Kia Motor)