The importance of the workers' struggle at a General Motors plant in Silao, Mexico has been likened to the 'sit-down strike' of GM workers in Flint in the 1930s.
of the México Solidarity Project. “We held several protests and zoom press conferences to let the public know that vehicles count more to GM than human lives.”
“We know that U.S. auto workers own cars,” Alejandra Morales Reynoso, a single mom who started at the Silao plant a dozen years ago, noted last year inwith the México Solidarity Project. “Why can’t we be paid enough to own a car? Some of us can hardly pay the rent, and our houses don’t even have sewage! We know that the GM millionaires with their mansions and big cars could easily pay us well.
None of this GM pressure surprised Héctor de la Cueva, the coordinator of a Mexican labor research center that’s been advising the activists with SINTTIA., “continue to think that it’s better to negotiate with these mafias than with the authentic representatives of the workers.”
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