GM temporarily lays off 6,000 workers in Mexico due to strike General Motors lays off 6,000 workers in Mexico temporarily due to a US labor strike, which has disrupted production at two plants south of the border manufacturing pickup trucks. The layoffs affect the Silao assembly and transmission plants in central Mexico, where work has been "disrupted as a result of a parts shortage related to the UAW strike," a GM spokesman has said.\\n IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES