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Information Letter No. 8 - June 1, 2019
Move ahead and support the preparation and mobilization to the Second International Automotive Workers Conference!
Solidarity with the fight of the 149 colleagues for their reinstatement, LEAR - South Afrika
Declaration of solidarity with the Jasic-workers in Shenzhen/China
The German Group of Coordination of the International Automotive Workers Coordination declares solidarity (23.3.2019)
Call of the International Automotive Workers Coordination for Participation in the 2nd International Automotive Workers’ Conference in South Africa in 2020
Automotive workers of the world, let us cross frontiers and strengthen international working-class unity!
Successful 2nd meeting of International Coordinating Group - Let's go ahead to 2nd International Automotive Workers Conference!
January 4, 2019 - Dear colleagues! From 5 to 7 December 2018 the International Coordinating Group of International Automotive Workers Coordination (ICOG) organized a successful 2nd meeting in the midst of turbulent times in Gelsenkirchen (Germany).
SOLIDARITY WITH THE WORKFORCE OF GENERAL MOTORS COLUMBIA
Appeal of trade unions SINTRAGMCOL and SINTRAIME Columbia December 21, 2018 Today on December 21, 2018, the workers of General Motors Columbia received a nefarious message from corporation management. GM has applied to ministry of Labour for a permission for the closure of the plant and enable large mass layoffs.
Solidarity with the Struggle of the GM workers in Colombia
22 December 2018 - Dear colleagues, We are outraged about the plans to shut down your plant, which mean that thousands of families will be deprived of their means of existence. And we declare our full solidarity in the struggle against this shutdown. The GM company board should not be allowed to get away with this, as well as with the plans they announced for shutting down plants in the USA and South Korea. With these measures GM wants to brace itself for the worldwide battle of annihilation of the auto companies and to shift the burdens completely onto the backs of the workers ...
Solidarity with the workers at GM - first protests against GM plans
International Coordinating Group - 6th December 2018
Solidarity with the workers at GM
6th December 2018
International Info-letter GM-PSA No. 14 – September 2018
From the representatives of the international GM / PSA corporation collaboration
Message of Solidarity to the Workers of the Lanxess Chromium Mine and the Community Mokhukhwini in Rustenburg/South Africa
Dear friends, we participants of the german preparatory meeting of the 2nd International Automotive Workers' Conference in South Africa send you warm greetings of international solidarity!
Solidarity with workers Ssangyong - South Korea
Ed Cubelo from KMU Philippines NCR and president of Toyota Motor Philippines Corporation Workers Association (TMPCWA) upon successful struggle of Ssangyong workers
Greeting message to the workforce of Ssangyong and to the activists of Korean Metal Workers Union (KMWU)
Dear colleagues, we congratulate you on your great success, that the last 119 of you must also be reinstated at Ssangyong company.
Great success in struggle: All Ssangyong workers in Pyeontaek (South Korea) will be reinstated!
The last 119 of the workers, which have been dismissed in 2009, now must be reinstated by Ssangyong Motors till July 2019. This is the result of negotiations between the trade union KMWU and the Ssangyong management in September 2018. Ssangyong receives support from the government for the reintegration of the dismissed workers.
Solidarity with workers in the plastics industry South Africa and their union NUMSA!
we send you and the union NUMSA solidarity and militant greetings for your unlimited strike and wish you the best of success! It is very important that you reject this precedent for attacks on the working class of South Africa by exploiting the so-called "minimum wage law" of the ANC government.
Declaration of solidarity with colleagues in China
For your right to found an independent union! Free all persons who have been arrested! NO to charges, punishment and repression!
Solidarity with the strike of Daimler colleagues in São Bernardo do Campo/Brasilien
Dear colleagues of Mercedes Brasil, we are colleagues of Daimler Sindelfingen and send you greetings of solidarity and support you in the fight for your demands. We will show solidarity with you here in Germany and invite you to the 2nd International Automobile Workers Conference February 2020 in South Africa. Let's strengthen our gang. Colleagues of Daimler Sindelfingen Press Speaker from IAWC Sindelfingen/Germany Klaus-Jürgen Hampejs
Greeting Message to Mayday 2018 to the Workers of Automotive and Supplier Industry of South Korea
Dear colleagues and comrades, dear class brothers and sisters, to the international day of the working class we send you our militant greetings and our full solidarity and support in your struggles against Hyundai/Kia, Ssangyong, GM and other corporations. We address special best wishes to the workforce of Ssangyong, their families and all union leaders.
The March 23 Strike at FCA-FIAT in Italy
FCA (Fiat Chrysler) has announced weeks of shut-downs for most Italian factories in the next months, including office workers, because its market share in Europe shrank in the last months, and it is clear that it plans to shift more production to lower cost countries with the next new models.
India: #FreetheMaruti13 - Appeal to Observe 18th March as Day of Protest
Comrades, you are aware that 13 Maruti Suzuki Workers Union body members are languishing in Jail on Life Term Sentence. 18th March 2018 will be one year of this infamous unjust judgement given–without a shred of evidence, and solely on the false witness accounts by the management–by the Sessions Court Gurgaon last year.
ITALY - SELF-ORGANIZED FIAT FCA WORKERS: APPEAL TO ALL WORKERS, ALL UNIONS AND MOVEMENTS
WE APPEAL TO ALL PEOPLE WHO HAVE AT HEART THE FUTURE OF THE WORKING CLASS, TO ALL THOSE WHO DO NOT ACCEPT THE SOCIAL BUTCHERY ENACTED BY THE BOSSES, THE GOVERNMENTS OF EVERY COLOR AND UNION OFFICIALS ON THE PAYROLL OF THE POWERFUL.
A statement from a former Worker of Opel Bochum for the workers of GM in Gunsan, Korea
In order to organize solidarity for the workers of GM in Gunsan, Korea, the metal workers union of South Korea, KMWU, asked the International Autoworkers Coordination for a statement from a former Worker of Opel Bochum, A GM plant which was closed by GM three years ago.
Motion of Solidarity to our Colleagues at Volkswagen Autoeuropa Palmela/Portugal
January 30, 2018 - Dear colleagues, your ballot votes in August and November 2017 against regular work on Saturday and Sunday obviously indicated your strong determination. On August 30, 2017, many workers of VW corporation and from all around the globe had watched respectfully your powerfull 24-hours-strike. This was a very important step to oppose plans of VW corporation.
Declaration of protest against the ban of MPRA in Russia
January 30, 2018 - International Automotive Workers Coordination turns determined against ban and dissolution of Interregional Trade Union Workers Association (MPRA), which was decreed by court of Saint Petersburg on January 10, 2018.
Statement of solidarity with Workers of Volkswagen Plant in Palmela (Portugal)
On behalf of the IP (Inicjatywa Pracownicza - the Workers' Initiative) Workplace Section at Volkswagen Poland, we would like to express our esteem, warm greetings and sincere solidarity with your strike against the enforced working weekends. Our section was established in August 2017 also in the face of extended working time in the Volkswagen factories in Poznań as well as passivity of the "Solidarność" union, which recently agreed on introducing the 17th shift (second shift on Saturdays).