BRAZIL: The 11 trade union leaders who were suspended by Fiat, subsequent to the September 29th one-day strike at the company's assembly plant in Betim, Minas Gerais, have been reinstated in their jobs. In addition to having suspended these union officials, the company had tried earlier to repress the strike and prevent the workers from mobilising by sending in their security agents and military police, who brutally attacked the strikers and caused injuries to 27 of them.
The unions will use various channels to make known their complaint concerning the company's hostile attitude.
The strike was part of a series of one-day strikes organised jointly by the CNM-CUT and CNTM-Força Sindical - from late September until the end of October in auto assembly and parts plants throughout Brazil - in support of their demands for a new collective agreement.