Letter to Les Kettledas of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) from Kathy Devine, Coordinator, Illinois Labor Network Against Apartheid with a copy of AN OPEN LETTER TO THE MAREMONT CORPORATION dated April 27, 1990, addressed to Maremont CEO Byron Pond. The letter is signed by Terri Davis, Field Organizer, United Electrical Workers International Union and Richard Ziebell, President, Local 477, and Chairman, Civil Rights Committee, United Auto Workers. The open letter protests that Gabriel Shock Absorbers in South Africa, a subsidiary of Maremont Corporation, has unjustly fired 244 workers. Denying democratic rights to black workers is what apartheid is all about. The...
Letter to Les Kettledas of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) from Kathy Devine, Coordinator, Illinois Labor Network Against Apartheid with a copy of AN OPEN LETTER TO THE MAREMONT CORPORATION dated April 27, 1990, addressed to Maremont CEO Byron Pond. The letter is signed by Terri Davis, Field Organizer, United Electrical Workers International Union and Richard Ziebell, President, Local 477, and Chairman, Civil Rights Committee, United Auto Workers. The open letter protests that Gabriel Shock Absorbers in South Africa, a subsidiary of Maremont Corporation, has unjustly fired 244 workers. Denying democratic rights to black workers is what apartheid is all about. The letter urges Pond to intervene, in support of the position that all workers be rehired and that the company negotiate with NUMSA. The letter argues that a continuing dispute at Gabriel Shock Absorbers will negatively affect the Maremont Corporation and Arvin Industries as the company's conduct in South Africa becomes known.
