The UAW and AFL-CIO are calling on General Motors and the Mexico government to ensure upcoming union elections at a plant producing the profitable Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra are fair and free of intimidation.
The UAW is asking specifically that labor inspectors, who can conduct investigations, be sent to the plant, that domestic and international observers be allowed to observe, that all petitioning unions receive a reliable voter list “immediately” and that the government and GM “take all necessary steps to ensure that violence inside the plant, and in the surrounding communities, does not influence the outcome of the vote.”