{"id":1127,"date":"2020-04-10T11:58:46","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T11:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/demo6.aiwalls.com\/ipapps\/?p=1127"},"modified":"2020-04-10T11:58:46","modified_gmt":"2020-04-10T11:58:46","slug":"general-motors-temporarily-lays-off-6000-workers-in-mexico-due-to-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/?p=1127","title":{"rendered":"General Motors temporarily lays off 6,000 workers in Mexico due to strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pic1.tadke.com\/imgs\/tech2lims\/0409\/vhdkwmpzbuq.jpg\" alt=\"United Auto Workers have been on strike at GM for three weeks, prompting furloughs at facilities in Canada and now Mexico\"><figcaption class=\"text-darken text-low-up text-truncate-js mt-3\">\n                United Auto Workers have been on strike at GM for three weeks, prompting furloughs at facilities in Canada and now Mexico<br \/>\n            <\/figcaption><p>General Motors has laid off 6,000 workers in Mexico temporarily due to a US labor strike that has disrupted production at two plants south of the border that make pickup trucks, the company said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>        <!-- \/4988204\/TechX_Story_InText_Box --><\/p>\n<p>The layoffs affect the Silao assembly and transmission plants in central Mexico, where work has been &#8220;disrupted as a result of a parts shortage related to the UAW strike,&#8221; a GM spokesman said.<\/p>\n<p>The Silao workers are expected to return to their jobs after the strike, the spokesman said. <\/p>\n<p>The plants in Guanajuato, produce GMC and Chevrolet pickup trucks. <\/p>\n<p>The moves come on top of the furlough of more than 3,000 workers in Canada and at an Ohio plant where GM operates a joint venture with Isuzu to make diesel engines.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 50,000 US workers are on strike at GM due to a United Auto Workers conflict over the labor contract now in its third week. <\/p>\n<p>Workers launched the strike on September 16 after contract talks failed to yield an agreement on wages, health benefits, temporary workers and job security.<\/p>\n<p>The strike also comes against the backdrop of GM&#8217;s decision last November to effectively shutter five plants in North America.<\/p>\n<p>A report Tuesday from JPMorgan Chase estimated that the strike has so far cost GM $1 billion, adding that the company has the potential to recover some of the lost profits in the fourth quarter if the strike ends soon.<\/p>\n<hr>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United Auto Workers have been on strike at GM for three weeks, prompting furloughs at facilities in Canada and now Mexico General Motors has laid<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1128,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[827,825,828,829,826],"class_list":["post-1127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-insider","tag-general","tag-lays","tag-motors","tag-temporarily","tag-workers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.txd9.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}