{"id":10683,"date":"2021-01-12T22:53:36","date_gmt":"2021-01-12T22:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lavozlit.com\/?p=10683"},"modified":"2021-01-12T22:53:36","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T22:53:36","slug":"stop-the-closure-of-all-ford-plants-in-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/workersvoiceus.org\/es\/2021\/01\/12\/stop-the-closure-of-all-ford-plants-in-brazil\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop the Closure of All Ford Plants in Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cspconlutas.org\/2021\/01\/12\/stop-the-closure-of-all-ford-plants-in-brazil\/\"><strong>Republished from the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">CSP Conlutas Brazil website<\/span> ( a militant trade union federation our comrades in Brazil are heavily involved in)<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nThe Ford Co announced on January 11, 2021 their decision to end vehicle production at its three plants in Brazil in 2021. The Cama\u00e7ari (BA) and Taubat\u00e9 (SP) plants will be closed immediately, according to the company, maintaining only the production of parts for after sales stocks. The plant in Horizonte (CE) which manufactures the SUV Troller is expected to stop its activities in the 2021 last quarter.<br \/>\nAccording to the company, only the Research Center in Bahia and the proving ground and its administrative headquarters for South America, both in S\u00e3o Paulo, will remain.<br \/>\nIn 2019, Ford had already finished production at the 52-year-old S\u00e3o Bernardo do Campo city plant whose premises were sold to Construtora S\u00e3o Jos\u00e9 and FRAM Capital.<br \/>\nThese closures have a devastating impact on the workers. 3,500 employees work at the Cama\u00e7ari plant, 830 at Taubat\u00e9 plant and 470 at Horizonte plant. At least another 15,000 outsourced workers in and out these three plants will be fired.<br \/>\nThe company\u2019s announcement states that \u201cthe Covid-19 pandemic expands the industry\u2019s persistent idle capacity and reduced sales, resulting in years of significant losses.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cThis measure is absurd! The pandemic accelerated the automaker\u2019s restructuring plans. It is cruel to close plants amidst the pandemic. Layoffs can reach 5,000 direct jobs plus 5 to 6 times of indirect jobs. Workers cannot afford to pay for the crisis\u201d says Luiz Carlos Prates, Mancha, member of the National Executive Board of CSP-Conlutas.<br \/>\nMancha draws attention to all the tax exemptions that the company has benefitted for countless decades and administrations. \u201cDoes the company, which benefits from tax exemptions, think it can leave the country whenever it wants, when its profits have decreased? No!\u201d he emphasizes.<br \/>\nOne of the problems pointed out for profit reduction are the financial remittances abroad, to its headquarters. For that reason, Mancha argues that profit remittances by automakers operating in Brazil need to end.<br \/>\nIn addition to Ford, Mercedes Benz had already announced the end of operations in Brazil in December 2020.<br \/>\nIn the announcement, Ford says it will work in collaboration with the unions to \u201cminimize the impacts of shutting down production\u201d.<br \/>\nCSP-Conlutas opposes such partnership. \u201cWe have to resist. Stop the closures. No layoffs! Job security!\u201d says Mancha, who calls on all the Brazilian labor federations to unite and stand up in defense of jobs and the non-closure of Ford plants.<br \/>\nStop Ford plants\u2019 closure!<br \/>\nNo layoffs. Job security now!<br \/>\nEnd of automakers\u2019 profit remittances abroad!<br \/>\nNationalization of Ford and all corporations which are laying-off employees under workers\u2019 control!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republished from the CSP Conlutas Brazil website ( a militant trade union federation our comrades in Brazil are heavily involved in) The Ford Co announced on January 11, 2021 their decision to end vehicle production at its three plants in Brazil in 2021. 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