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Union Strikes GM Plant in Brazil
Members of Brazil's Metalworkers Union of Sao Jose dos Campos conducted a 24-hour strike at General Motors Co.'s assembly plant near Sao Paulo to protest the potential closing of the factory.
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Members of Brazil's Metalworkers Union of Sao Jose dos Campos conducted a 24-hour strike at General Motors Co.'s assembly plant near Sao Paulo to protest the potential closing of the factory. The workers are scheduled to meet today with government officials in Brasilia.
GM says Monday's walkout slowed but did not halt production at the facility because some hourly employees came to work.
The company has indicated it will decide by the end of this month whether to continue to operate the Sao Jose plant. About 350 of the 1,500 employees there have accepted buyout offers from GM.
One of the four models made at the factory went out of production last week, and the fate of the other three is uncertain. The company tells Reuters it redirected new-vehicle investments originally intended for the facility to other plants in Brazil after labor negotiations in Sao Jose broke down earlier this year.
GM, like many automakers in Brazil, has cut production in the first half of 2012 as the country's auto market has stalled.
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