Black unions back G.M. strike
NZPA-Reuter Johannesburg Two more black South African trade unions have pledged full support for a strike at General Motors plants over a decision by the Detroit-based parent company to sell out to local interests. The Metal and Allied Workers’ Union and the Motor Industry Combined Workers’ Union issued a statement that also contained demands to other multinational companies. The strike began last Wednesday when 3000 members of the National Automobile and Allied Workers’ Union (N.A.A.W.U.), brought production to a halt at G.M. plants in Port Elizabeth. The three unions said in
a joint statement that . General Motors had drawn huge profits during its 60 years in South Africa. “It now wants to pull out at no cost to itself and makes no provision for the future of the workers, only of. management,” the unions said. A number of United States-based companies have announced withdrawals because of the slow pace of changes to apartheid and the slack South African economy. The unions demanded that any international companies pulling out of South Africa should guarantee no redundancies, make a severence payment and guarantee the full earnings of workers for the next 12 months. -
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