Post by Logan on Apr 24, 2017 22:58:53 GMT -6
GM fires 2,700 Venezuela-based employees after plant closes, Reuters reports
Less than a week after General Motors stopped operations in Venezuela when the government seized its only factory in the country, Reuters reports the automaker fired 2,700 of its employees there.
Workers tell the news service they received a message informing them they were no longer employed by the Detroit automaker and were receiving severance pay in their bank accounts.
One unnamed employee told Reuters "we all received a payment and a text message."
Another said "our former bosses told us the executives left and we were all fired."
Read more: www.mlive.com/news/us-world/index.ssf/2017/04/gm_fires_2700_venezuela-based.html
Less than a week after General Motors stopped operations in Venezuela when the government seized its only factory in the country, Reuters reports the automaker fired 2,700 of its employees there.
Workers tell the news service they received a message informing them they were no longer employed by the Detroit automaker and were receiving severance pay in their bank accounts.
One unnamed employee told Reuters "we all received a payment and a text message."
Another said "our former bosses told us the executives left and we were all fired."
Read more: www.mlive.com/news/us-world/index.ssf/2017/04/gm_fires_2700_venezuela-based.html