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"en.20041025.14.1-098"2
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"We are appalled by the restructuring just announced by GM Europe aimed at cutting 12 000 jobs in the short term in all of its European factories and at reducing structural costs by around USD 600 million per year.
A few months ago, the General Motors Group, of North America, was said to be planning drastically to reduce its workforce and to make cuts in Opel, Vauxhall and Saab’s European factories.
As stated in the motion that was recently approved by the workers at Opel Azambuja, in Portugal, GM’s consolidation measures cannot be allowed to continue to damage the workforce. It is the workers who have met the conditions of what is known as the 2001 ‘Olympia Agreement’, while the Board of GM Europe has been carrying out its obligations in a piecemeal and incompetent fashion, by doing business in a confrontational and contemptuous manner. In so doing, they have shown their ignorance of the European car market.
GM Europe’s economic success cannot depend solely on importing American brands and American strategies. It is essential that production be maintained in various countries in Europe.
We therefore wish to show our solidarity with and support for the GM Europe factory workers in their fight against redundancies, against the closure of factories and against the violation of collective working agreements. Their rights must be defended."@en1
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