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Ford to stop car production in India
On September 9, 2021, news of the planned closure of Ford's Sanand plant in western India by December 31 hit the approximately 1,200 employees like a bombshell. Ford also plans to close its Chennai plants in southern India by mid-2022. 2,600 workers will lose their livelihood, and the entire region would be affected. Correspondence from Ingolstadt rf-news.de 30 December 2021
Good luck, power and health in the New Year 2022 !
The International Coordination Group expresses its sincere thanks for the good cooperation in 2021. We look forward to a militant and successful year 2022 !
We mourn the loss of Sonti Dlamini
25 December 2021: Our friend Sonti Dlamini died of cancer much too early on Christmas Eve. She was 32 years old and leaves behind Khanysile, her 12 year old daughter. We met Sonti while preparing for the 2nd International Automotive Workers Conference in Vereeniging, South Africa. In the Multinational Assistance Staff Sonti was co-responsible for the catering and thus had a great share in the success of the conference. Sonti was a reliable, gentle and kind co-worker and friend. We will cherish her memory. We wish her daughter and her friends much strength to cope with the heavy loss.
The strike of the ‘Iran car’ factory workers of “Tabriz.” in protest to low wages & lack of creating working levels 3 monthly contracts and difficult working condition!
The workers of the “Iran Car “factory of Tabriz have gone on strike so that they can reflect their demands about the low wages, lack of having working levels 3 monthly contracts hard working conditions and low wages.
Unite All Workers for Democracy extends our full solidarity with the autoworkers at the Opel Eisenach plant in their struggle to save their jobs.
We are a rank-and-file caucus inside the United Auto Workers fighting to change the direction of our union away from corruption and top-down business unionism in favor of democracy, global solidarity, and resistance to corporate greed.
International Day of Environmental Struggle on 6 November 2021: Workers' and environmental movement together against the destruction of the natural environment, our health and jobs
After almost two years of Covid-19 Pandemic, which has intensified the world economic and financial crisis, we know how much it’s important to avoid another sanitary crisis. In addition, this has much to do with the environment.
Declaration of solidarity from militant Stellantis workers and from the International Solidarity Committee of SI Cobas from Italy
28 October 2021: Dear fellow workers of Opel Eisenach, dear colleagues of the Stellantis Group, We warmly support your protest against the closure of the Eisenach plant, and share your worry that it may not be temporary; We strongly appreciate the unity of action that has been reached between German Eisenach workers and French Sochaux workers.
THE OCTOBER 11 GENERAL STRIKE IN ITALY
On Monday, October 11 a general strike was called in Italy by fifteen alternative unions. It was the first such unitary strike in over one decade, in the effort to break the silence imposed on the working class by the official unions (CGIL, CISL and UIL), which prefer “concerting” with the government than organising struggles in defence of workers’ conditions.
International Automotive Workers Coordination International Information Letter GM-Stellantis No. 22 - October 2021 From the group coordination Stellantis/GM in the IAC
Dear Colleagues, due to a current occasion we turn to you today with a special international information letter: On Thursday, September 30, in a night-and-fog action by Stellantis, the closure of the Opel plant in Eisenach/Germany was initiated. With the official reason of semiconductor bottlenecks Stellantis announced to shut down the production in Eisenach immediately until the end of the year at first.
Labor Information Agency - AIL Constitutional Court agrees with 20 workers and forces the company to reintegrate them
Date: 10/14/2021 Category: News Author: Labor Information Agency Editor [Bogota, Colombia] On July 26, the Constitutional Court, through its Eighth Review Chamber, issued judgment T-237 of 2021. In it, it agreed with 20 workers who sued GM Colmotores for considering that it had discriminated against them by firing them. The ruling obliges the company to reinstate those laid off, pay their salaries and benefits, and cancel any compensation that may be applicable.
Solidarity greetings for the general strike of the grassroots unions in Italy on October 11, 2021
Gear Colleagues, Your courageous call for a general strike is justifiably directed "against the policies of the Draghi government and the European Union, which, with the unblocking of layoffs, the further liberalization of subcontracting and the use of PNRR (National Recovery and Resilience Plan) funds, represent a gigantic social slaughter at the expense of workers, temporary workers and the unemployed. This exclusively benefits the ruling classes and international speculators, who are primarily responsible for the economic crisis and the health and social catastrophe we have witnessed in this year and a half of pandemic.
Solidarity with the workers in struggle in GM São Caetano do Sul (Brasil)
GM metalworkers in São Caetano do Sul, São Paulo, have been on strike for an undetermined period since last Friday (October 1st). The strike was called because of GM's attempt to postpone the wage readjustment of 10.42% (referring to inflation over the period) and reduce the rights of workers.
International Solidarity and corporation-wide Struggle against the closure of the Opel plant in Eisenach/Germany
Shortly after the federal government elections, Opel has decided to stop production at its Eisenach plant in Eastern Germany until the end of the year. The reason given is a lack of semiconductor chips. However, the measure is directly related to crisis symptoms with declining sales and strategic restructuring plans starting from the parent company Stellantis. The assembly lines in Eisenach will be completely emptied, and the 1300 employees will be put on short-time work. Contrary to Opel's statements to the public, there are indications that this is in preparation for a final plant closure in Eisenach from 2022. With the production stop of the Grandland X, warehouses will be emptied and material will be sent to other plants. The facelift of the Grandland is now to be produced at the plant in Sochaux, France. Extra shifts are already planned there. So why the short-time working in Eisenach?
Information letter on the ICOG meeting - Country Reports and Resolutions
5 September 2021: The International Coordination Group (ICOG) met online for the second time on August 15. There were country reports from Brazil, Germany, India, South Africa, as well as a statement on the current situation from Tunisia. Our representative from the Philippines was excused. The country reports, resolutions, solidarity declarations and the call of the ICOG for the International Day against Fascism and War are documented on our homepage.
International Newsletter General Motors / Stellantis No. 21 - September 2021
Dear colleagues! Our last information letter in March got a very good international response, with feedback from Germany, Italy, Australia, Morocco, France, Poland and Mexico. Two Italian websites published it, and it was more widely distributed in Brazil and Mexico. In Australia, it was reprinted along with a foreword in which laid-off auto workers tell how they took their wealth of experience in the labor struggle into their new jobs.
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