The United Steelworkers (USW) and the United Auto Workers (UAW) today strongly condemned yesterday’s savage attack on leaders of Section 308 of the National Union of Mine and Metal Workers at the Johnson Controls Interiors plant in Puebla, Mexico.

In a letter to Stephen Roell, Johnson Controls' President and CEO, USW International President Leo W. Gerard and UAW President Bob King expressed grave concern about the company’s apparent failure to abide by an agreement reached in May and the apparent collaboration of local management in the violent assaults carried out by thugs associated with the Confederación de Organizaciones Sindicales (COS), the former union in the plant ... more