Hundreds of workers at General Motors’ Thai assembly plant on Thursday ended a 10-day strike after settling a pay dispute with the management, the automaker said.
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The strike by a few hundred of the 800 unionised workers in southeast Rayong province had fully halted operations at the GM plant after management asked workers who had not joined the protest to take paid holidays during the dispute, Reuters reported.
GM and the workers union “achieved amicable solutions resulting in an agreement that is mutually beneficial with the shared objective of ensuring continued growth and sustainability of GM and the Chevrolet brand in Thailand and around the region,” it said in a statement cited by the news agency.
“I would especially like to commend the workers’ union of GM for conducting themselves in a peaceful and orderly way throughout the process” said GM Thai president Steve Carlisle in the statement.
The GM plant, which employs about 1,700, produces about 50,000 pick-up trucks (most badged Chevrolet), passenger cars and special utility vehicles a year.
The US$750m plant started production in 1999 with most of its output, mainly small pick-up trucks, exported to dozens of countries.
Isuzu and Holden-branded pickups are also made there and the plant has also assembled Opel and Alfa Romeo vehicles.
