To the authorithies if the signatory T-MEC countries
To workers’ organizations
To social and politica organizations in defense of labor rights
To collectives, groups and solidarity citizens
To the media
To international trade unions
As Members of Generando Movimiento, both active workers and those that have been fired from General Motors, Silao complex, located in the state of Guanajuato, we are writing to you in the midst of an economic crisis that is looming worldwide and in a state of alert to the crime that the owners and managers of the General Motors company are ready to commit by forcing our fellow workers to return to work on May 18, in the midst of the peak of the coronavirus pandemic (SARS-COV-2), and the most vulnerable ones to being infected, on May 30.
The protocols that they intend to implement at General Motors do not meet the minimum recommendations of the health sector, nor do they even respect the healthy distance to avoid contagions. We express our total rejection of these measures, which only lead us to the slaughterhouse, as has happened in other maquiladora companies in northern Mexico, such as Tijuana, Mexicali, Ciudad Juárez, among others, where they forced workers to return to work in conditions of total or disguised exposure, circumstances that have generated deaths from COVID-19 (SARS-COV-2) of infected workers in those work centers. Government authorities and the media have confirmed that maquiladora companies have been a major factor in the increase in coronavirus infections to date.
We publicly denounce that amidst this period of social restrictions by the health sector, massive layoffs have been carried out in the plants and will continue in the coming days. Not satisfied with the cost savings of production and cheap labor in Mexico, it is clear the company is not considering our lives and that of our families and therefore that of the general population, in its obsession to prioritize profit at our expense.
We make a broad call to all unions, social, political, human rights, non-governmental organizations, associations, collectives, groups, movements, nationally and internationally, to act in solidarity with our cause to demand respect for our lives and our rights.
We demand that the lives of all of us be prioritized as employees, workers with full labor rights and as citizens with non-negotiable human rights. In the same sense, we demand an immediate solution to the list of demands raised since September 2019:
● NO RESTARTING OF WORK UNTIL IT IS COMPLETELY FREE OF DANGER AND THE WORK SAFETY OF ALL OUR FELLOW WORKERS ON EACH PLANT IS 100% ENSURED.
● NO TO MASSIVE AND UNJUSTIFIED DISMISSALS IN GENERAL MOTORS COMPLEX IN SILAO.
● REINSTALLATION OF DISMISSED COMPANIONS: CESAR MACHUCA, ISRAEL DOLORES CERVANTES, PILAR DE LA LUZ TORRES, JUAN CARLOS MENDOZA, RAMON RODRIGUEZ, FERNANDO MORENO MOYA, CARLOS MARQUEZ, ARTURO MARTINEZ, JAVIER MARTINEZ, MAURICIO NEGRETE, PEDRO MACIAS, MARIA GUADALUPE IBARRA, ANA MARÍA GONZALEZ TORRES AND HILDA CASTILLO.
● PAYMENT OF 100% OF THE WAGES IN TECHNICAL BREAK DAYS IMPOSED BY THE COMPANIES.
● FREE ELECTIONS OF TRADE UNION REPRESENTATION WITHOUT RETALIATION TO THE ELECTED TRADE UNION.
● STOP THE REPRESSION OF BOTH THE UNION AND THE COMPANY AGAINST THE WORKERS.
● RIGHT TO ONE HOUR OF PAID MEAL BREAK.
● COMPLETE PANTRY VOUCHERS FOR DISABLED COMPANIONS.
That said, we demand that both General Motors executives and government authorities promptly resolve our demands, basic human and labor rights.
ATTENTIVELY
GENERANDO MOVIMIENTO
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