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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).