By Paul Rachwal
Monday, Aug 20th, 2012 @ 12:50 pm
 
A group of seven former GM employees at the Colmotores plant in Bogota, Colombia have sewn their mouths shut as part of a hunger strike against the automaker. They are protesting the fact that they got wrongly dismissed after suffering serious workplace injuries.

The extreme form of protest is their way of demanding compensation after already having protested for a full year right outside of the United States embassy, The Star reported. The move prevents the men from eating, though they can still talk, albeit with some difficulty.

One of the former workers claims that nine years of soldering and other metal work at GM resulted in herniated discs, carpal tunnel syndrome and tearing in muscles around his upper spine.

Jorge Parra even went so far as to set up the Association of Injured Workers and Ex-Workers of Colmotores (Asotrecol) and maintains that GM erased medical records and didn't compensate the workers injured on the job, though the carmaker denies these claims.

The group demands Colmotores cover each member's medical costs and hire them back.

  

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