GM workers camp out in Colombia.

• Author: Lieberman, Amy
• Position: On the Line - General Motors - Brief article

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"We were doing the kind of heavy work that you would have seen workers in U.S. auto plants doing fifty or sixty years ago."

--Jorge Parra, president of the Association of the Sick Workers and Ex-Workers of GM-Colmotres

Outside the U.S. Embassy in Bogota, Colombia, a protest hums along inside a well-stocked tent marked by a Colombian flag and an American flag hung upside down--a military symbol of distress.

Four former General Motors workers have called this tent home since August 2. They represent more than sixty workers fired over the last three years after they say they developed work-related injuries. GM-Colmotres, the Colombian branch of the...