gm said all its brazilian workers except for one have agreed to the shutdown and for a plan to cut salaries by up to 25sao paulo general motors co plans to keep its brazilian factories shut down for at least 60 more days due to the coronavirus crisis the company said thursday as the final batch of unionized workers voted on the automakers proposal gms plants in brazil have been shuttered since march 30 when the company put its workers on furlough but kept their pay intact as it made employees use up vacation days but as the pandemic has worsened globally and holiday allotments have dried up gm has had to look for more drastic measures in south americas top auto producer now its factories in brazil where for several years chevrolet has been the countrys best selling brand will be shut down at least until mid june advt the timeline puts brazil behind the schedules set by automakers in europe where companies have said they might begin building vehicles by the end of this month in the united states automakers including fiat chrysler automobiles and toyota motor corp are hoping to restart production in early may to be sure gm has not set reopening start dates elsewhere in the world brazil has more coronavirus cases than any country in latin america and its rightwing president jair bolsonaro has been criticized for minimizing the severity of the disease gm said all its brazilian workers except for one have agreed to the shutdown and for a plan to cut salaries by up to 25 the remaining union based in sao jose dos campos in sao paulo state will finish voting on the proposal on thursday night if the crisis does not allow workers to resume auto production within 60 days gm may extend the shutdown to 90 days according to a document shared with workers and seen by reuters read alsocoronavirus could force gm to delay its redesigned 2021 suvsgm to supply 30000 ventilators in 500 mln us contract reuters published on apr 10 2020 at 0836 pm ist telegram facebook copy link be the first one to comment comment now comments comment now read comment 1 all comments post post find this comment offensive choose your reason below and click on the submit button this will alert our moderators to take actions reasons for reporting foul language defamatory inciting hatred against a certain community out of context spam others report join the community of 2m industry professionals subscribe to our newsletter to get latest insights analysis download etauto app get realtime updates save your favourite articles scan to download app gm brazil plant auto plants shutdown auto plant shutdown due to coronavirus auto production international homenewsindustrygm plans to extend shutdown of brazil auto production by 60 days