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4 Oct 2019

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Lauren Kaori Gurley, VICE

Mexico: General Motors workers dismissed after organising in solidarity with US protests

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"General Motors Fired Five Mexican Workers For Aiding the U.S. Auto Strike", 25 September 2019

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...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...

...GM and the UAW did not respond to requests for comment.

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