General Motors CEO pressed on fate of Colombia factory workers
A long running dispute between auto giant General Motors and former GM factory workers in Bogota...
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GM plans to invest nearly $100M over 4 years in Colombia
U.S. automaker General Motors wants to invest nearly $100 million over the next four years in Colombia and export some 2,000 vehicles assembled in the Andean nation to Brazil. Representatives of GM’s senior management in...
GM opens new plant with optimism for Colombia market
The local subsidiary of General Motors expressed optimism for the future of Colombia’s...
Former Colombia autoworker on day 60 of hunger strike
Jorge Parra claimed to be on day 60 of his hunger strike protesting the mistreatment he and other former Colombian autoworkers allegedly received at the hands of General Motors. With no sign of a response from the US automaker,...
GM remains embroiled in labor dispute with Colombia workers
A labor dispute between Colombian autoworkers and their former employer, General Motors (GM), has deepened as conflicting accounts emerge. The head of the association for injured workers and ex-workers of General Motors...
Colombian GM worker takes hunger strike to Washington
Colombian General Motors (GM) worker Jorge Parra is on hunger-strike again, and this time he is in Washington D.C. Parra has been protesting what he says was his unfair dismissal from GM for 407 days as of Tuesday, when he...
US labor activists fast in support of Colombia General Motors hunger strike
U.S. labor rights activists fasted Wednesday in support of Colombian former General Motors (GM) workers who have been on hunger strike for three weeks to demand compensation for labor-related diseases. According to human rights...
More General Motors workers sew their mouths shut in hunger strike
Seven men have now sewn their mouths shut in a hunger strike over the treatment of workers at a Colombian subsidiary of General Motors. GM Colombia is failing to look after employees who have been injured at work, say the...
Colombian General Motors employees on hunger strike over ‘labor rights violations’
A group of employees and ex-employees of the Colombian branch of General Motors began a hunger strike in front of the U.S. embassy in Bogota Wednesday to protest the firing of colleagues on sick leave. The hunger strike followed...
