The Venezuelan government is leaving management and workers to sort out a dispute at a Mitsubishi and Hyundai CKD assembly plant in the country that has seen the plant shuttered indefinitely.
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“This is an issue of differences between the bosses and the workers that needs to be worked out by them,” said Jesse Chacon, minister of science, technology and light industry, in a statement from the state news agency cited by Dow Jones.
The statement said labour ministry officials would meet with company representatives and would offer services as a mediator, but little beyond that.
“The Venezuelan state is not responsible for this internal conflict,” the statement said.
MMC Automotriz, a subsidiary of Mitsubishi, shuttered the eastern Venezuela plant on Monday, citing “high level of absenteeism, disobedience, aggression and lawlessness of some of the workers.”
Chacon said that while it was an internal conflict, the government nonetheless would make sure the decision to close the plant was done legally. He said the firm needed to take into account that such actions could hurt other sectors such as car dealerships and parts makers.
