Weak sales are giving automaker layoffs

To adjust the volume of production to demand, General Motors will give collective vacations in June for periods ranging from 12 days to a month in the three factories of the group in the country. The stops involve the staff of the third shift of factories of Sao Caetano do Sul (SP) and Gravataí (RS), and light commercial line and CKD (disassembled cars) of São José dos Campos (SP).
GM did not disclose the number of employees who will be at home, but, according to the unions of Metalworkers of these bases are involved about 3.2 thousand production workers. The President of the syndicate of the metalurgists of São Caetano, Inácio da Silva Appeared, said that, in that unit, will also be dismissed more than 3 thousand employees salary.
At the factory of São Caetano, the holidays range from 12 to 29 June and in São José dos Campos, from 12 to 23 for a group and 12 to 29 for another team. In Gravataí, the suspension will be for one month, from 12 June to 11 July. In addition to the holiday, there will be exemption from all 21.5 thousand employees of the Group on 12, 17 and 23, Brazil sets dates for the World Cup.
The drop in vehicle sales and high inventories will also auto parts maker Bosch in Campinas (SP), to reduce a work shift on several lines of the company in June. The number of people involved is under evaluation, informs Bezalel Botelho, President of Bosch Latin America. ' There was a 15% cut in demand of automakers ', justifies the Executive.
Despite current difficulties, Barker announces that the company will invest $ 108 million this year in Brazil, a good part in nationalization of projects components. Today, the company imports 40% of all parts used in production and want to strongly reduce this percentage.
Strike
A strike of about 1,000 workers at auto parts maker Benteler, Campinas, started on Thursday, paralyzed on Tuesday, 20, the production lines of several automakers. The company provides soldiers sets, shafts and stamped parts. According to the Steelworkers Union of Campinas, the strike is for the payment of profit sharing (PLR), better working conditions and against layoffs of workers with health problems.
The entity informs that were paralyzed today at Toyota's Assembly lines in Indaiatuba (SP) and Honda in Sorocaba (SP). Silva, São Caetano, metal workers also stated that the GM factory in town operated today by lack of axes.
In a statement, Honda confirms that ' due to problems in supply of certain parts ', interrupted production in the second round. The administrative areas and the production of the first shift worked normally and all activities will be resumed on Wednesday, 22. ' We would like to emphasise that the parade does not have any relationship with the demand in the Brazilian market, which follows heated driven by launch of new fit'a, informs.
The first round of the production line of Mercedes-Benz in São Bernardo do Campo (SP) also entered to work today because of negotiations for the payment of PROFIT SHARING. After agreement with the company, which undertook to pay a first installment of $ 7,000, the production was re-established.