Motion of Repudiation against GM South Korea

December 23, 2025: GM Sector of the ICOG (International Automotive Workers Coordination: To the Management of GM South Korea, GM has issued collective dismissal notices effective December 31 at its South Korean plant. This is GM’s only logistics unit in Korea. The unilateral decision by GM’s corporate headquarters to close nine directly operated service centers in Korea has caused the company to violate existing labor agreements signed with the KMWU (Korean Metal Workers’ Union).

Labor agreements must be respected, and the union-busting actions aimed at "clearing out" the union from the newly organized GM Sejong Logistics Center must stop immediately.

It is urgent to halt the unilateral plan to close the directly operated service centers (Customer Care and Aftersales, "CCA");

The company must fully respect the labor management agreement to discuss the sale of land at the Bupyeong plant and the future of the service centers "without predetermined outcomes";

GM must present a concrete and viable plan for the future of GM Korea, including clear strategies to increase domestic sales in the Korean market.

The company is also persecuting newly unionized workers at the GM Korea Sejong Logistics Center. These employees have worked since 2003 at the GM-owned facility under labor contractors that change every two years, with employment succession for all workers under each new contractor. The current contractor, Woojin, was informed that its contract would be renewed; however, after the workers unionized and went on strike, GM initiated the contract termination process instead of renewal.

In the face of this attack on the Logistics Center workers, we demand:

The withdrawal of collective dismissals and the maintenance of employment succession;

That GM ceases union persecution and recognizes the union;

The regularization of the workers' status and that GM Korea operates the logistics center directly.

GM must learn to respect the right of workers to organize worldwide—an achievement we will not surrender.

We, the workers of the GM Sector of the ICOG (International Automotive Workers Coordination), who recently met in conference in Pune, India, express our solidarity with GM workers in South Korea and demand that the company meet their demands.