The Action Alert asks people to write to Byron Pond, CEO, Maremont Corporation, and James K. Baker, CEO, Arvin Industries, Inc., demanding that their subsidiary, Gabriel Shock Absorber, negotiate with the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) and rehire all fired workers. When NUMSA went on strike in July at Gabriel Shock Absorbers, the company fired 244 workers. (Gabriel is a subsidiary of Illinois-based Maremont Corporation, which in turn is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Indiana-based Arvin Industries.) A Labor Network delegation, led by UAW Local 477 President Dick Ziebell and UE Field Organizer Terry Davis, met with the Vice-President of Maremont to ask the company to...
The Action Alert asks people to write to Byron Pond, CEO, Maremont Corporation, and James K. Baker, CEO, Arvin Industries, Inc., demanding that their subsidiary, Gabriel Shock Absorber, negotiate with the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) and rehire all fired workers. When NUMSA went on strike in July at Gabriel Shock Absorbers, the company fired 244 workers. (Gabriel is a subsidiary of Illinois-based Maremont Corporation, which in turn is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Indiana-based Arvin Industries.) A Labor Network delegation, led by UAW Local 477 President Dick Ziebell and UE Field Organizer Terry Davis, met with the Vice-President of Maremont to ask the company to intervene, which they flatly refused to do. They argued that the company must abide by the laws of South Africa, which are apartheid laws.
