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29 August, 2001The strike at the Puebla plant will continue until the company improves its offer.
MEXICO: Almost 97 per cent of the 12,500 striking workers at Volkswagen Mexico have voted against the carmaker's latest offer of an 8.5 per cent pay increase plus improved benefits. Thus the strike at VW's plant in the central Mexican city of Puebla, which is in its 13th day, will continue.
The general secretary of the Volkswagen trade union, José Luis Rodriguez Salazar, says that "we would really have to receive a more serious, feasible offer to take it back to a union assembly."
The union's latest demands stand at a 16 per cent wage increase, and the union says its members should get a big rise in pay because productivity at the Puebla plant keeps going up and Mexican workers at other international auto companies have won wage increases of between 10 per cent and 16 per cent this year.
The general secretary of the Volkswagen trade union, José Luis Rodriguez Salazar, says that "we would really have to receive a more serious, feasible offer to take it back to a union assembly."
The union's latest demands stand at a 16 per cent wage increase, and the union says its members should get a big rise in pay because productivity at the Puebla plant keeps going up and Mexican workers at other international auto companies have won wage increases of between 10 per cent and 16 per cent this year.