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3rd International Automotive Workers Conference opens - Pune welcomes automotive workers and friends from around the world

3rd International Automotive Workers Conference opens - Pune welcomes automotive workers and friends from around the world
November 20, 2025: Correspondence: At 11 a.m. Indian time, Manoj Patil from Shramik Ekta Mahasangh (SEM) and as a coordinator from the International Coordination Group (ICOG) welcomed participants to the 3rd International Auto Workers Conference (IAC) at the G.D. Madgulkar Auditorium in Pune, India. Conference is opened with the honor of Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj and lightning of the lamp. The hospitality and commitment of the SEM and TUCI trade unionists was impressive. They made this meeting and the broad participation of other representatives of the Indian labor movement possible. This included providing the participants with good vegetarian food during the lunch break.
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“Namaste” from Pune!

“Namaste” from Pune!
November 18, 2025: Correspondence from the Culture and Public Relations Team: Namaste can mean ‘hello’ or “goodbye.” The word essentially means “I bow to you.” The 3rd International Automotive Workers' Conference in India will open the day after tomorrow! Since Saturday, more than 20 people from two guest countries have already arrived to help with the preparations on site. Our Indian colleagues have already done a lot of important work here.
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Automotive workers – take action against environmental destruction! Fight for a future worth living in unity with people and nature!

Automotive workers – take action against environmental destruction! Fight for a future worth living in unity with people and nature!
November 8, 2025: ICOG call for International Day of Environmental Struggle on November 15, 2025: Hurricanes and typhoons have recently killed and injured hundreds of people in Southeast Asia and the Caribbean, devastating entire regions. The infrastructure has been completely destroyed. In the Philippines, over a million people have had to leave their homes and seek safety. This scenario clearly shows what humanity can expect in the near future in the face of these climate disasters as global warming increases. As automotive workers, we cannot turn a blind eye to this. That is why the issue of environmental destruction, necessary immediate measures, and a livable future in unity between humans and nature will be an important topic at the 3rd International Automotive Workers' Conference from November 20-24, 2025, in Pune, India. The International Coordinating Group (ICOG) has included the issue of the struggle to protect the natural environment in its proposed resolution to the conference delegates.
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Canceled editorial Blitz from 4.11.25 Stellantis plans drastic cutbacks in Europe:

That’s enough – Now it’s our turn to speak! Stellantis spreads good news in public: unit sales and sales revenues are rising again. But BLITZ has learned: Behind closed doors they are planning and discussing which plants are to be closed. Rüsselsheim, Eisenach, Termoli and Melfi in Italy, Poissy near Paris, Madrid and Glivice are candidates for closure. Further information underpins this assessment: in the pilot plant in Rüsselsheim no successor model is in sight. Opel CEO Huettl complains that the production of e-cars in Germany is too expensive. At the same time, Stellantis is investing $13 billion in the USA in new combustion engine car plants. They are talking behind our backs about the livelihood of tens of thousands of workers, of families and regions – and we are supposed to stay out of it? This is not acceptable!
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International Information Letter GM-Stellantis No. 28 – November 2025

From the Stellantis/GM Group Coordination in the IAC Dear colleagues, We are sending you the text of a special edition of the group newspaper “Blitz” for the German Stellantis plants. We have typed up the article especially for you because it contains explosive information and good suggestions for our cooperation, in particular the proposal for a group-wide day of action against plant closures. Such a proposal must, of course, be thoroughly discussed in every country and every plant. There will certainly be thorough discussions on this at the 3rd International Automobile Workers Conference at the end of the month in Pune (India). That is why we would like to make the information and assessments known immediately:
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International Newsletter GM-Stellantis No. 26 – September 2025

From the Stellantis/GM Group Coordination in the IAC: Dear colleagues The third International Automobile Workers Conference (IAC) from November 20 to 24, 2025, in Pune, India, is just around the corner! This conference comes at just the right time, when we automobile workers are challenged by attacks from corporations and inundated with nationalist, racist, and fascist demagoguery.
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First September International Day of Struggle against Fascism and War!

First September International Day of Struggle against Fascism and War!
Call from ICOG for Anti-War Day 2025: August 10, 2025; The Rumours of War are becoming a reality as always. Will we ever learn!!! The anticipated meeting between President Vladimir Putin and President Donald Trump over the Ukraine War continues to remind us of the danger of a 3rd World War and the possibility of the use of the Nuclear Weapons in this War. The War has intensified over the recent period. This is so because in Europe, the military alliance NATO and Russia, the leading nuclear powers are at logger heads bitterly confronting each other in a War that is all about the sphere of influence and the race to accessing raw materials in the region for their imperialist ambitions and agenda. This is an Imperialist War!
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Statement of the Workers’ Syndicate of the Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company

Statement of the Workers’ Syndicate of the Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company
AWNI, July 1, 2025: The Workers’ Syndicate of the Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company Condemns the bombing of Evin Prison and Demands the Implementation of the Law on the Release of Prisoners in Wartime. The Workers’ Syndicate of the Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company, with the utmost regret and anger, strongly condemns the Israeli airstrike on Evin Prison, which resulted in the injury of a significant number of prisoners and the killing and wounding of several staff, including medical staff and conscripts. This attack is a clear violation of humanitarian principles, human rights, and the legal obligations of sovereign institutions to protect the lives and security of prisoners.
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