GM do Brasil has resumed operations at its manufacturing complex in Sao Jose dos Campos, ending a 24-hour lockout, part of an ongoing dispute with unions over the possible elimination of 1,500 jobs.
Despite saying that the shutdown would continue pending an agreement with the unions, GM management allowed the 7,500 employees at Sao Jose dos Campos to return to work to allow negotiations to continue.
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GM reopened the eight plants at the complex after the Brazilian government announced plans to mediate between the company and workers.
The head of the Sao Jose dos Campos Steelworkers Union, Antonio Ferreira de Barros, told reporters that he will demand that GM abort any plan for mass layoffs and that the government intervene immediately to guarantee the jobs.
GM said it had yet to decide on shutting down the passenger-car assembly line at the complex and that the shut-down was to “protect the physical integrity of the employees while discussions continue with the union representatives in relation to the viability of one of the plants at the complex”.
