Strike at Audi Plant in Mexico: Negotiations, Updates, and Impact on Production

2024-01-25 17:35:23

The strike in a German automobile plant Audi in town fulfilled this Thursday his first 24 hourswith no signs so far of the union and the transnational reaching an agreement.

The workers of the plant located in the Puebla municipality of San Jose Chiapa They continue with their respective guards, waiting for an agreement to be reached regarding the resolution of the salary increase.

He Government of Mexico offered this Thursday intermediate between the unions and Audi following the strike that broke out on Wednesday at its plant in Puebla, in the center of the country, due to disagreements over salary increases.

The Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare (STPS) and the Federal Center for Conciliation and Labor Registration They expressed in a statement “their willingness to continue with mediation” to “help reach an agreement in the revision of the Collective Bargaining Contract.”

“Both labor authorities have accompanied the negotiations between the parties through more than 17 conciliation tables, in which an agreement was sought that would allow the union’s requests and the company’s offers to be brought together,” indicated the statement shared this Thursday.

He Authentic Union of Workers of the Audi Mexico Company (Sautam) and the Independent Union of Audi Workers (Sitaudi) began the strike this Wednesday at the assembly plant in the municipality of San José Chiapa, considered the first premium Audi factory in America.

The conflict, which affects the production of more than 700 vehicles per day, occurs because the company only offered a salary increase of 6.5 percent, below the 15.5 percent requested by employees.

The work stoppage represents the new labor panorama in the country following the reforms that allowed greater union democracy as part of the Treaty between Mexico, the United States and Canada (T-MEC), in force since 2020.

With information from López-Dóriga Digital and EFE

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