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- Subject: VOLKSWAGEN SHUTS 14,000 WORKERS OUT OF MEXICO PLANT
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- Topic 82 NNY: Volkswagen Shuts 14,000 Out
- erica Labor Announcements 6:21 pm Aug 16, 1992
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- 14. VOLKSWAGEN SHUTS 14,000 WORKERS OUT OF MEXICO PLANT
- On July 28, German auto transnational Volkswagen shut its factory
- in Puebla, Mexico and rescinded the contracts of the plant's
- 14,289 workers. The workers went on strike July 21 to press
- salary demands and to protest the dismissal of militant union
- leaders; they were also angered at Volkswagen's persistence in
- recognizing Gaspar Bueno as their sole union representative. The
- workers accuse Bueno of docility towards management, saying that
- he negotiated a contract that didn't meet their needs. (They had
- demanded a 50% wage increase; the company granted 15% in wages,
- 5% for productivity and 3% in loans.) AFP says Bueno was elected
- to head the union last December; IPS says Volkswagen has refused
- to recognize the Automobile and Allied Workers Union, which
- represents the workers involved in the conflict. Company
- President Joseph Wellman called the issue at stake "an internal
- problem of the union" and blamed the workers. "We will never
- again even dialogue with the former workers of the firm," he
- said.
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- The plant will remain closed and guarded by the police until the
- government's department of labor justice makes a decision on
- whether or not Volkswagen's decision was correct; the decision
- must be made within 11 days. If the government accepts the
- company's decision, Volkswagen will be able to rehire some of the
- workers it dismissed, though they will lose their seniority and
- contract benefits. Volkswagen's Puebla factory is 27 years old
- and is the company's most important plant, manufacturing nearly
- 1,000 cars and 2,000 motors a day. According to IPS, Wellman said
- the closure "could be temporary or definite," and that Volkswagen
- might pull out of Mexico altogether. [IPS 7/28/92; ED-LP 7/29/92
- from AFP]
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