It seems to be that GM has global processes, global platforms, global templates, a global manufacturing system and also a blueprint for harassing worker representatives in countries where the laws allow them to do this or unions are traditionally weak. Currently, the unions represented at GM worldwide are discussing serious violations of workers' and unions' rights in the following GM plants (more reports will follow): Rayong plant in Thailand (new union was founded last year), Togliatti in Russia (new union was founded last year), Tychy in Poland (plant is ran by Isuzu Management which tries to cut off ties of the union representatives to the EEF), Gravatai in Brazil (elected worker representatives of CUT for the health and safety commission in the plant were dismissed by GM), Development Center and plant of GM DAT in South Korea (GM is trying to get rid of the union). As one example we are attaching a document which is a letter of Isuzu Management to the Solidarnosc union in the Tychy plant in Poland saying that they are not part of the European Works Council of GM (EEF) and that they has to avoid any contact to the members of the EEF. The cases of Togliatti and Tychy and in South Korea are covered by a European Framework Agreement (Code of Conduct) which includes also business partners of General Motors Europe. That is her clearly the case. Until now the President of GME Carl-Peter Forster refused to take the responsibility for the South Korean case saying it would be not his business and he is not willing to interefere into other GM Managements business. The EEF is not willing to accept this. Further information on all this cases will follow by the IMF and the involved unions and documented in this blog. Please comment or report about similar cases in GM plants.