General Motors CEO pressed on fate of Colombia factory workers
General Motors CEO pressed on fate of Colombia factory workers
written by Jack Norman June 8, 2016
A long running dispute between auto giant General Motors and former GM factory workers in Bogota heated up again at the company’s annual meeting in Detroit, when a shareholder publicly urged GM’s CEO to settle the case.
The former GM members say they were fired unfairly in 2012 because of workplace injuries. For four years they have maintained a protest encampment across the street from the US embassy in Bogota.
The case was brought up during the Q&A session at GM’s annual meeting of shareholders by Paige Shell-Spurling, an activist with the Portland (Oregon) Central America Solidarity Committee.
Shell-Spurling pressed GM Chairman and CEO Mary Barra to settle the issue, saying it was “sweatshop” conditions that caused injuries that led to the firing of more than 60 workers at the GM Colombia assembly plant. Many of them have moved on, but a core of about ten remain active in challenging the company.
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