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Second week of strike at General Motors in the United States, has already cost a billion dollars to the American automaker. This causes the shutdown of car production lines in US factories, and has consequences even in the Group's factories in Canada and Mexico.
This strike is the longest since 1970 for the giant of Detroit, which had not known any social movement since 2007. Since September 16, nearly 50 000 American employees of General Motors are on strike. They are demanding wage increases and better conditions for their colleagues hired after 2009, when the state bankrupted the bankruptcy group.
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The United Auto Workers (UAW), the powerful auto industry union that is leading the sling, is calling for the reopening of four factories in the state of Ohio. These sites were shut down last November following a relocation policy.
Deletion of 14,000 posts
The negotiations concern a cost-saving plan that General Motors announced at the end of 2018. It called for the removal of 14,000 jobs and the closure of four sites in the United States. For the moment, no agreement has been found.
The consequences of the conflict are heavy for General Motors. The interruption of work in American factories led to the technical layoff of 6,000 workers in the three sites of the group in Mexico. It's the same thing in Canada, where the automaker's plant in Ontario was shut down on Friday, September 20th.
The automaker has already lost nearly $ 1 billion, and according to analysts, the shortfall would be $ 75 to $ 100 million a day.
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