Concept cars, glitzy parties and ... political protests?
The drama isn't limited to the display stages at this year's North American International Auto Show in Detroit.
The most forceful of these demonstrators may be Jorge Parra, now engaged in a 56-day hunger strike, who has traveled to Detroit to raise awareness about the struggle of former auto workers in Colombia. Parra and other ex-employees of a Gm plant in Colombia say they were unjustly fired after being injured and are demanding to be rehired and given compensation.
Parra is one of several of the former workers, belonging to a group called Asotrecol (Association of Injured Workers and Ex-Workers of General Motors Colmotores), who has sewn his mouth shut and gone on hunger strike in an effort to get the company to negotiate. Recently he has been joined in his strike by several Metro Detroit supporters like Chrysler worker Melvin Thompson --...
The drama isn't limited to the display stages at this year's North American International Auto Show in Detroit.
The most forceful of these demonstrators may be Jorge Parra, now engaged in a 56-day hunger strike, who has traveled to Detroit to raise awareness about the struggle of former auto workers in Colombia. Parra and other ex-employees of a Gm plant in Colombia say they were unjustly fired after being injured and are demanding to be rehired and given compensation.
Parra is one of several of the former workers, belonging to a group called Asotrecol (Association of Injured Workers and Ex-Workers of General Motors Colmotores), who has sewn his mouth shut and gone on hunger strike in an effort to get the company to negotiate. Recently he has been joined in his strike by several Metro Detroit supporters like Chrysler worker Melvin Thompson --...
- 1/14/2013
- by David Sands
- Huffington Post
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