ASOTRECOL Kicked to the Curb
Channel: ASOTRECOL ASOCIACION
Date: 2012-07-19

Workers from the General Motors assembly plant in Bogota, Colombia have been leaving the company with occupational diseases for years. A courageous group of workers have asserted that this should not be happening. After fighting their individual cases for 3-4 years they decided that they would be stronger united, and formed the association ASOTRECOL. On August 2, 2011 they began a peaceful protest in front of the U.S. embassy in Bogota, Colombia, to bring visibility to their situation. They have spent almost a year enduring the rain and hunger, their families enduring hunger at home. Thanks to pressure from ASOTRECOL, GM Colombia has changed how they run the assembly line. They have begun to rotate the workers and install equipment to do the heavy lifting. GM Colombia refuses to resolve the situation of the 12 workers who are challenging their abuses, they are playing a waiting game and trying to force the workers to give up out of desperation.

Support the workers by signing their petition: http://www.change.org/petitions/gm-resolve-situation-of-workers-dismissed-for-occupational-injuries

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Los trabajadores de General Motors Colombia han estado saliendo de la empresa con enfermedades profesionales desde anos. Un grupo de trabajadores muy valientes han dicho que no debe ser asi. Estuvieron peleando sus casos y dicidieron que son mas fuertes juntos que a solos, y asi que formaron la asociacion ASOTRECOL. El 2 de agosto de 2011 empezaron una protesta pacifica en frente de la embajada de los EE.UU in Bogota, Colombia, para visibilizar su situacion. Ya van a cumplir el ano aguantando la lluvia y el hambre, con sus familias sufriendo en sus casas. Gracias a la presion de ASOTRECOL, GM Colombia ha empezado a hacer una rotacion de los trabajadores y instalar equipo para levantar las cosas pesadas. Todavia rechazan a resolver la situacion de los 12 trabajadores quienes quedan, intentando forzarles a desparecer de desesperacion.

Apoya a los trabajadores por medio de firmar su peticion: http://www.change.org/petitions/gm-resolve-situation-of-workers-dismissed-for-occupational-injuries