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Workers Strike at Brazil Plant
Hourly employees have walked off the job at General Motors Co.'s Gravatai manufacturing complex in southern Brazil, according to local news reports.
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Hourly employees have walked off the job at General Motors Co.'s Gravatai manufacturing complex in southern Brazil, according to local news reports. The facility normally produces about 1,200 vehicles per day.
Workers are seeking a 12% pay raise and a two-hour reduction in the workweek to 40 hours. GM has offered an 8.3% wage hike and a one-hour cut in weekly work schedules by next January.
The Gravatai facility has 4,500 workers who build the Chevrolet Celta, Prisma and Onix minicars. GM aims to boost output there to 338,000 cars this year from 208,000 units in 2012.
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